It's here! It's here! Let the bells ring out, let the banners fly! It's sign up time for MOYD (Master of Your Domain) 2013. Join in - play every day - and see what a great difference it will make to your piano skills!

MOYD is a personal challenge where you commit to playing the piano for some amount of time every single day. It might be a few hours, it might be a few minutes - it doesn't matter. If you miss a day you must come here and say so.

Please report AFTER the fact. We only need to know when you DID miss playing - not that you "might not be able to play".

2013 will be the 9th year of MOYD on ABF.


MOYD RULES

1. Participating in MOYD requires you to sit on the piano bench and play something at least once daily. That's it. There is no minimum amount of time required. Five minutes counts... but more is better. Simply get to the piano every day, let it become a habit, and see what good things happen to your piano skills.

2. If you are away from home (for business, or for personal reasons) , you don't have to practice/play. You go to the 'Excused list".

3. If you are sick, you don't have to practice/play. You go to the 'Excused list".

4. If you are at home, and you are not sick and you miss a day, you have to come here and tell us the sad story of what kept you from playing. Then you go to the "Back on the Wagon list".

5. You may start late - however no new participants are accepted after September 30th.


6. Those who have reported being away, being sick, falling off and getting back on, or who sign up date have the right to put the MOYD 2013 badge in their signatures on 31 December 2013.


HOW TO JOIN

Simply reply to this thread declaring your enthusiastic willingness to join in and be committed to the plan!

I will check in regularly and update this first page with the information you provide. I will not reply to all the posts.

Signature pictures will be offered to those who are 2013 MOYD winners. Below you will find the 2012 Siggies.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ADDING IMAGES TO YOUR SIGNATURE:
1. Place your cursor on the desired icon,
2. right click,
3. go to properties,
4. copy the Url,
5. go to your profile page signature box,
6. place cursor,
7. click on "enter an image" paste.
8. save changes











Let us all send a big thank you to MaryBee for making our badges!!

January 1, 2013

FIRST CATEGORY

Pure MOYD list, those who practice everyday no excuses:

(I get to sign up first ....well, I was first, now on the excused list )

-Fryeck
Allard
scorpio
ClsscLib
Woody-Woodruff
Nancypants
Jazzwee
neildradford
LimeFriday
j&j
ChopinAddict
venice1
JerryG
Densi826
Molehill
Cyborg
WannabePT
Justplay
Tinman1943
AimeeO
cscl
Cookie74
Jim S
Gomer
lizzie3
Dmaj
IreneAdler
mark233
gingko2
Evelyn S
happykah
gwood
Andreas Lundberg
CHAS
Maestro57

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SECOND CATEGORY
EXCUSED MOYD List, You were sick, or away from home.

Wisebuff - 4 Jan, 25, 27-29 March
BillTheSlink 9-18 Jan from 30 Jan on sick list for nerve trouble
BeccaBb 21&22 Jan, 1 May...on hold
JimF 23-24Jan
Torquenale 2-9 Feb
Ragdoll 26,27,28 Feb
Oongawa 19-21 March
Stubbie 1-14 April
Palmpirate 2 April-1 May
Andy Platt - spring break March
Saranoya 30 March
MaryBee 29/03-1/04
casinitaly 26-27/04
hegedusmj 29April-6 May
Tararex 13-22 April
SwissMS 13-20 May
Joyoussong 14 May


THIRD CATEGORY - BACK ON THE MOYD WAGON, for those who missed a day for a reason other than being sick or away from home .... but who are back on THE MOYD WAGON with new start date.

Bobpickle 26 January
piano_deb 4 Feb

FOURTH CATEGORY: LATE START MOYD: For someone new who wants to join after Jan 1 2013. Note that the LAST DAY TO JOIN IS 30 September!


newbieaz 28 Jan
swimMommy 30 Jan
Cher Z 3 Feb
zillybug 4 Feb
StaceyB 6 Feb
Eglantine 2 March
DennisInMN 5 March
Marc Harris 13 March
BookCover 16 March
Mete 8 April
earlofmar 15 April
dynamobt 19 April
JosephAC 19 April
Carolinagirl 1 May

I get to sign up second.

I joined PW too late for the 2012 MOYD. Count me in this year!

Please sign me up.

Please sign me up! I can't wait to start the new year on the piano. And I will master my domain.

I'm in and will add my 2012 badge (2nd class) as soon as I've finished the year. I'm starting to feel confident about it, though.

Sign me up for 2013

Count me in Casi, it's pretty much a habit already barring illness. No badge for me this year for 2012 though too new here.

As you can see the add a badge process did not work for me. There was no "add an image". What do I need to do please.

Hi Wisebuff,

here is what you have with the troublesome part higlighted in red at the beginning and end of your text:


[/img]http://www.pianoworld.com/forumpicts/MOYD12/MOYD_12.gif]

what it should be is what I have in GREEN - but after bot of the [ there is a space you need to remove.

[ img]http://www.pianoworld.com/forumpicts/MOYD12/MOYD_12.gif[ /img]


Technically you shouldn't be adding it yet (just kidding, I think you're a pretty safe bet
Cheers,
Cheryl

Please sign me up for 2013, Cheryl.

And THANK YOU MaryBee for my new badge. I'll wait till New Years to add it.

Sign me up for my third year!

I can't stop now. Add me to the list also please.

LOL. You're right...I haven't made it through the whole year yet. I'll wait. I've printed the instruction you gave. I've been practicing all morning. I want to play Wild Rider at least a half speed (still pretty fast)

I'm in! Thanks!

Sign me up again! Thanks! And thanks to you MaryBee for our Badges.

Count me in! Thanks again Cas for running another year!

I'm leaving my badge in.. took me five minutes to get the darn thing to work! LOL

I'm in for 2013. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Sign me up. I aspire to be as dedicated as you all!

Hello!
Reading the forums for one year, but registered less then one hour ago to sign for the MOYD 2013.
Work and family = no time to practise, so I need extra motivation!

Cas -- thanks so much for running MOYD again for the coming year. Please sign me up!

(It's nice to see everyone's new badges showing up. )

My pleasure MaryBee - and I agree, it is fun to see the new badges...(I'm holding off on setting mine up.... I almost fell off the wagon today!! Can you believe it?
I didn't really feel like playing - but I thought..oh c'mon Just DO IT ! I ended up playing for half an hour )


I'm really happy to see what a great mix of new comers and "old timers" we've got already signed up! Looks like another enthusiastic group is rarin' to go!

Sign me up as always. I suppose I don't need this for motivation since I never miss a day but it's good for encouraging others.

Sign me up please! Really hope I can play every day next year but I'm thinking this could be difficult to do when our baby is born, we'll see.

Neil.

I'm going to try this again. I'm feeling more motivated lately than for the past few months.

Please sign me up! I did MOYD in 2010 but dropped off the bandwagon the last couple of years - I need to accountability and structure again.

Thanks!

Yes! Count me in. I should have signed up for 2012, since I didn't miss a day since I started lessons mid-May. Except for a couple out of town trips, which would have been excused.

Does it still count as a New Years resolution if I WANT to do it?

I've finished for 2012 and am signing up for 2013!

I'm in. Sign me up for MOYD 2013.