A list of some of the things I want to work towards in my life. Some are simple things, others fantastical, yet others almost impossible. I've written them down to remind me to keep pushing for what I want for myself and the people around me.

If you want to see what I'm up to right now, check out the now page.

Note: These are just goals and aspirations. Don't mix these up with a sense of worth or value as a human being. Read more: Aspirations and worth.

Recently acheived 🎉

• Do a muscle-up (on a bar) [June 2022] #physical
• Front split right [April 2022] #physical
• Full stalder press [Mar 2022] #physical

Life 🔥

• Completely stop biting my nails
  • Grow guitar nails on my right hand(?) [June 2020]
• Publish my own tiny introspective book
• Have 1m NOK in the bank [May 2020]
• Renovate and set up home base on island [Dec 2021]

Read about my life.

Physical 🥦

• Do 100 consecutive pushups
• One-armed pushup (with proper form)
• Muscle-ups
  • Do a muscle-up (in rings) [June 2020]
  • Do a muscle-up (on a bar) [June 2022]
  • Do a full L-sit muscle-up in rings
• Ring levers
  • Front lever for 15s
  • Back lever for 15s
• "Basic" handstands~
  • Lift to handstand from sitting l-hold [Aug 2020]
  • Press to handstand (Standing, feet apart) [Sep 2020]
  • Pike press [Apr 2021]
  • Full stalder press [Mar 2022]
• One-armed handstand
  • Left
  • Right
• Handstand in rings
• Planches
  • Full planche
  • Planche push-ups
  • Plance press to handstand
• 20 consecutive pullups [Sep 2020]
• Splits
  • Front split left
  • Front split right [April 2022]
  • Front split left with square hips
  • Front split right with square hips
  • Side split
• Hanging flag
  • Left
  • Right
• Run from Pl. Independència → Castell de Sant Miquel and back in <1h (→12km,↑320m)
  • PR is about 1h10m
• Run the Stoltzenkleiven-opp race in Bergen

Adventure ⚡️

• Row from Varvik or Harstad → Lofoten
• Climb 5 mountains in Vesterålen (the region I’m from) (2/5)
• Bike from Norway → Spain
• Spend a weekend together with all my friends from around the world
• Walk El Camino de Santiago across Spain
• Do a trip through Europe with "no" luggage
• Trans-Siberian Express to China and stay for a while

Read about my adventures here.

Travel/living abroad 🌍

• Live in Tanzania
• Live in Taiwan
• Live in Jordan
• Live in the Azores
• Travel to Bohn, Germany with my friend Jan
• Travel to all the provinces of Spain (4/52)
  • Cádiz, Guipúzcoa, Girona, Barcelona

Read about my travel and adventures here.

Note: By "live" I mean spend a fair amount of time (>4 months) in a specific area.

Note 2021: I hope to get to go to these places, but I'm conflicted because of climate change.

Events to attend 📅

• VM i Skreifeske i Lofoten
• Trænafestivalen
• Some polyglot conference
• A stick chair woodworking course or get together

Professional 🕳

• Properly learn the Julia programming language
• Learn important aspects of systems programming and Rust
• Learn and know how to use essential shell commands
• Use meta programming for something useful and productive
• Build an iOS app and publish it on the App Store
  • I've made many, but not published any
• Use ML/AI for a project in work
• Build a "finished" IoT prototype product

Skills 🧰

Languages 🐋

• Learn Lithuanian
• Learn Ukrainian
• Learn to speak (and not only read) French fluently
• Learn Arabic
• Learn Swahili
• Learn Italian
• Learn Portuguese
• Learn a sign language: NSL (Norwegian Sign Language)

Read  about my language learning.

Note: By "learn"  I mean "to be able to comfortably hold conversations in on a range of central topics of importance"

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 ✏️

• Learn to draw figure drawings
• Learn to draw botanical illustrations in watercolours
• Memorise the most important anatomical structures of the human body
• Know the entire human skeletal system
• Know the entire human muscular system

Cooking 🍷🍴

• Learn to cook staples from the North-Norwegian kitchen with my grandmothers
  • Bremangerlefse (bæsta)
  • Boknafesk
  • Kvæfjordkaka
  • Fjærsei
  • Rømmegrøt (bæsta)
  • Gomme (farmor)
  • Krydderkake (farmor)
• Learn to "perfectly" make the five "mother sauces" of la Cuisine Française:
  • Béchamel
  • Espagnole
  • Velouté
  • Hollandaise
  • Tomate

Read about my cooking.

Other

• Learn to renovate a house/flat
• Learn a bit of some dance styles:
  • Salsa
  • Swing
  • Tango
• Learn 50 poems by heart ( 5/50 )
  • Love One Another - Gibran Khalil Gibran
  • El viento en la isla - Pablo Neruda
  • La reina - Pablo Neruda
  • Parlen les dones - Montserrat Abelló
  • Det er den draumen - Olav H. Hauge

This page is inspired by The Impossible List. I first read about it here.

Retired goals 🧓

• Learn to dis- and assemble a car engine [not a priority]
• Build a brand for my company and maintain it for some time [I don't really want this in retrospect]
• Learn Russian [not a priority, 28/8/2022]
• Learn Mandarin Chinese [not a priority, 28/8/2022]