My Impossible List
A list of all the things I want to work towards in my life. Some are simple things, other are fantastical, yet others almost impossible. Yet I've written them down to remind me to work towards what I want for myself and the people around me.
If you want to see what I'm up to right now, check out my now page.
Life 🔥
- Completely stop biting my nails
- Grow guitar nails on my right hand(?)
- Publish my own introspective book
- Build a finished IoT prototype product
Have 1m NOK in the bank[May 2020]
Read about my life.
Health/Exercise 🥦
- Do 100 consecutive pushups
- One-armed pushup (with proper form)
- Hanging flag, left & right
- Planches
- Full planche
- Planche push-ups
- Plance press to handstand
- Handstands
Lift to handstand from sitting l-hold[Aug 2020]Press to handstand (Standing, feet apart)[Sep 2020]- Pike press
- Full stalder press
- One-armed handstand, left & right
- Handstand in rings
20 consecutive pullups[Sep 2020]- Muscle-ups
Do a muscle-up (in rings)[June 2020]- Do a muscle-up (on a bar)
- Do a full L-sit muscle-up in rings
- Ring levers
- Front lever for 15s
- Back lever for 15s
- Splits
- Front split, left & right
- Side split
- Run from Pl. Independència → Castell de Sant Miquel and back in less than 1h (12km total, 320m)
- Run the Stoltzenkleiven-opp race in Bergen
Adventure ⚡️
- Row from Varvik → Lofoten
- Climb 5 mountains in Vesterålen (the region I’m from) (2/5)
- Bike from Norway → Spain
- Spend a weekend together with all my best friends from around the world
- Walk El Camino de Santiago
Read about my adventures here.
Travel 🌍
- Travel to Tanzania
- Live in Taiwan
- Live in Jordan
- Travel to Malaysia with my friend Tim
- Travel to Germany (Bohn) with my friend Jan
- Travel to all the provinces in Spain (4/52)
Cádiz, Guipúzcoa, Girona, Barcelona
Read about my adventures here.
Events to attend 📅
- VM i Skreifeske i Lofoten
Professional 🕳
- Build a personal brand and maintain it for some time
- Properly learn the Julia programming language
- Use meta programming for something useful and productive
- Build an iOS app and publish it on the App Store
- Use ML/AI for a project in work
Skills 🧰
Languages 🐋
- Learn Lithuanian
- Learn to speak (and not only read) French fluently
- Learn Arabic
- Learn Mandarin Chinese
- Learn Swahili
- Learn Russian
- Learn Italian
- Learn Portuguese
Read about my language learning.
Guitar 🎼
- Learn to play Capricho Árabe on the classical guitar
- Play the guitar in public with my father
- Create my own arrangement of a song
- Play, record and use a recording for a project
Read about my guitar playing.
Drawing ✏️
- Memorise the most important anatomical terms
- Know the entire human skeletal system
- Know the entire human muscular system
- Learn to draw botanical illustrations in watercolours
- Learn to draw figure drawings
Cooking 🍷🍴
- Learn to cook staples from the North-Norwegian kitchen with my grandmothers
- Learn to perfectly make the five "mother sauces" of la Cuisine Française:
Béchamel- Espagnole
- Velouté
- Hollandaise
- Tomate
Read about my cooking.
Other
- Learn 50 poems by heart ( 5/50 )
- Learn to renovate a house/flat
- Learn to dis- and assemble a car engine
- Learn dance styles:
- Salsa
- Swing
- Tango
This page is inspired by The Impossible List. I first read about it here.