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Mighty Summit Tote Giveaway
When we were pulling together gifts for the Mighty Summit, we set a few aside to give away. Here’s what’s up for grabs today:
Large Natural Zip Top Canvas Tote Bag by Lands End
I had no idea how useful these were until I had one. Sturdy, preppy delicious, and just the right size for a weekend away. Yours will not say “Sarah” on the front, but it will have the same trim.
I bought a pair of these genius travel shoes a while back, and they’re one of my favorite things. Tieks fold in half so you can stuff them in your purse, and the quality is amazing. They come in all sorts of candy colors and metallics — plus they pack flat and slip off easily when you’re heading through airport security. The winner gets to choose any pair for $135 and under.
Bamboo Dahlia Necklace By Feisty Elle
You know that girl who always looks so cool, and you can never pinpoint what it is about her? Good jewelry. Dahlias are my favorite flower, and designer Leslie Yang made a silver version of this necklace for Summit attendees.
Neoprene Laptop Case from Mixed Bag
Now you can drop your laptop more stylishly than before.
Tattly makes temporary tattoos that don’t suck. We’ve talked about these before, and they’ve come out with a few new designs since. Instant toughness boost for the nerd corps.
A one-year subscription to Typekit, the service that lets you use a variety of fonts on your site without having to serve them as images. Have you noticed the Web has been looking prettier lately? Thank these guys.
Gretchen Rubin was one of our Mighty Summit attendees this year, and she brought along her New York Times Bestselling book, which is about her year-long experiment in making her life happier. I love this idea, and this book.
The Quintet Necklace by Lemonade Handmade
I’ve mentioned this necklace before, we give one to each of the attendees to symbolize the five Life List goals they hope to accomplish in the coming year. I love the necklace for its simplicity, and I like the idea of five golden rings being little commitments to yourself. I wear mine most days until I’ve crossed everything off for the year.
And that’s it for today. Pretty good, huh? To enter please leave a comment about something on your Life List, contest closes next Thursday night at midnight PST. Helen Jane and Laura at The Queso are doing giveaways as well, so head over there for two more chances to win.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment here, because it’s the nice thing to do, and also because multiple entries on Mighty Girl will be disqualified. I’ll use random.org to select the winner, and I’ll announce who won at the top of this post and in a separate post next Friday. Offer eligible only to U.S. and Canada.
I’m just saying, if I won, the bag wouldn’t be an issue.
That gold necklace is the prettiest, I covet it every year now!
Some day, I will make a good pavlova.
On the life list: travel to Croatia!
Great giveaway!
I’ve had learn to knit on my life list for a while and recently my husband’s aunt visited us, plopped down on the couch, and pulled out an enormous scarf she had been working on on the flight up. I asked her if she thought she could teach me and within an hour, I had started my own scarf. I had thought about taking a class at the local yarn store but family showing up to teach me was wayyyy better.
My bff and I have been working on our mighty list for the past year, thanks to your site. Right now I’m currently working on one that is to see all 50 documentaries from the NYT’s best list, but the next one I’d like to do is to go to the Bronx Zoo. I recruited my parents to join me! The most exciting item I crossed off this year was to go skydiving. Best. Experience. Ever.
Fingers crossed! I’ve been ogling those flats forever.
I would like to take my husband to Paris – I left for a month in Paris shortly after we started dating, calling him from public phones and hotels rooms all over the city while I was away … something tells me it would be infinitely better with him by my side.
I can’t wait for the road trip across the country with my daughter.
Learn how to make my own undies. Really.
Go on a road trip with no itinerary, no map, no lists, no directions.
Oh my. I would love to switch careers and do something creative and rewarding; however, I am terrified!
Time to pony up the money and go skydiving.
I’ve been reading Mighty Girl from Australia for 12 months and now that I’ve moved to Canada I can finally enter a giveaway! Not that just reading wasn’t delightful.
Moving overseas for at least 12 months was on my Life List, so tick! Love the tote, shoes, necklaces, book…ok everything up there looks sweet and lovely.
I just crossed something off my life list: learn to crochet! I never thought I’d be able to do it, but I have a lovely afghan to give to my grandmother for her 95th birthday.
The latest one I’ve been working on is participating in a blogging challenge. I’ve been doing 12 books in 12 months http://armchairsquid.blogspot.com/2011/07/12-books-in-12-months-announcing-new.html and now that fall is here I’m getting ready to learn to make rye bread.
My best friend just moved to LA, and I have never been to California. Thus, first on my life list is to go see her there, but as an extension of that, I’d like to bank up some separate money and vacation days to keep on the side in case she ever needs me to fly there spontaneously.
Random items from my Life List…
~ Go on a road trip in a convertible
~ Learn basic watercolour technique
~ Run a race and finish in the top half
As you might guess from the ‘u’ I put in ‘watercolour’, I’m very pleased that this contest is open to Canadians. Thanks!
You have great taste. Just sayin.
One of my goals is to learn to play the guitar! I’ve slowly picked up a few chords here and there, but not enough to play songs yet.
My big goal for the year is to start a blog about stuff I like, ranging from Classical literature, rants, feminism, and pop culture. I don’t plan on having thousands of readers, but it would be a great outlet for things I like to think about.
Working on my list!
My goal is to finish my life list. I’ve started one, but to say that is even cheating. I know what I would put on it, but have not, as of yet, written them down. My goal is to WRITE THEM DOWN, then as you have advised, fill it in with all the good stuff that seems like a dream but is totally doable if I decided it is!
First on the list:
Own a sewing machine!
I want to win a camogie national championship! And visit Ireland, return to Madrid, go to China and Japan, explore India …
My trusty Land’s End tote is finally giving out after almost 15 years of weekly farmers’ market trips. Kismet.
I do yearly lists, as opposed to a life list, but on this year’s list is: go to a scotch tasting, and try fifty different kinds of cheeses, to name a few.
What a nice giveaway and it will remind this aging baby-boomer that life lists are not just for the young. In fact, there is an even greater sense of urgency. After spending 30+ years in the corporate world, I now own a sustainable cut-flower business and, yes, I do grow dahlias! Next on my life list are chickens and bees, and perhaps minature cattle (Dexters).
I want to renew my wedding vows on Table Mountain, in Cape Town, South Africa.
I want to set foot on each of the continents. I’ve got 3 so far.
On the life list: travel through Europe!
Travel to Egypt to see the pyramids – I’ve wanted to go since childhood and plan to make that dream come true one day!
one thing on my list – teach a class. it could be on anything really, i used to coach soccer and run art projects but its been awhile and i keep thinking i have some pretty decent skills id like to share.
This is the year I get to teach my only child to drive. I always thought that was something old people got to do, turns out, not so much, since I get to in the next few months.
I love all of these pretty things!
Top of my list: graduate nursing school. Yesterday I found out I was accepted to the nursing program, so I’m getting there!
life list: go to nyc at christmastime (scheduled to do on 12/2!!!!).
Can mine actually say Sarah?
I recently completed a major life list item (living abroad for the year) and a medium life list item (making a quilt for my new nephew). I am currently puzzling over what to tackle next – probably updating my work website, so the typekit subscription is apropos. And, my bag should say ‘Sarah’ on the front, so that’s easy.
I don’t think I’ve even added it to my Life List yet, but skydiving is what I’m going to do in the next year. Hopefully in the spring. Looks like several others have done it and loved it, so I can’t wait!
life list- teach my first art class… I get to do it on the 14th!
I want to write something and be paid for it.
I bought a sewing machine on Craigslist and started my sewing lessons last nite!! I CAN SEW, MAGGIE!!
A new entry on my life list is to take photography classes
After a rough two years, I finally feel like my head is getting above water again. This past weekend, of course with the help of great friends, I moved into one of my big-ticket items on my Life List – my very own house! Homeowner? Check! I cannot tell you how amazing it feels. Next up? Monthly dinners for friends in my home.
My first goal is to finish the life list.
Next up on the life list: playing guitar in public. Or, you know, figuring out a thesis and finishing my master’s degree. OR BOTH.
I have this lovely sewing machine that a sweet friend gifted to me and it’s about darn time to learn to use it! Now is the time! It’s going to happen!
Next up on my list… have a baby!
Life List Item #29: Have a studio of my own, with good light, and a door.
To feel truly relaxed.
I’d like to learn how to use my DSLR…like REALLY use. That’s on my Life List.
I want to get a passport and travel abroad. Specifically, to Japan and Amalfi in Italy.
New entry. Get involved in the PTO at my sons school. Much more scary than it sounds.
I want to enter something I make in the State Fair, winning a ribbon would be a bonus.
It’s not really on my life list, more like a fantastical wish list: I want to participate in Mighty Summit.
Have marked a few off my list this year, even some I didn’t know were on there. My next two to tackle? Learning Italian and learning how to restore the antique piano I bought for $15…and then how to play it.
Dang it, I am *going* to a performance of Handel’s Messiah this year.
I did have to strike something from my Mighty List, because it turns out reading nothing but 100-year-or-more-old books makes my modernist literature brain sad. But I have been reading more old books this year. I’m in the middle of something that was written in the 800s (like, 1200 years ago, not 200) and it is delightful.
(Since my name is Sarah, it is like that bag is calling to me.)
Next on the life list: create a mediation oasis; a pillow, candle, books, and quiet.
Oh this inspired me to get out my list! Here is one doable item:
See Niagara Falls
I forgot how badly I wanted to go
xoxo Em
Those shoes look so comfortable! Some day, maybe I’ll make it to the summit. Until then, I want to sew a skirt and run a 5K before the end of 2011.
In the mid-1990s, my grandfather bought some Printshop software and went to town publishing a weekly (!) family newsletter. My grandma had just gotten diagnosed with cancer, and he used the newsletter to keep everyone informed about how she was doing. She passed away a few years later, and my grandpa eventually passed away too. In his memory, and to keep my huge family in touch with each other, my life goal is to take over his role of newsletter publisher and to publish at least bi-monthly, going forward.
I want to travel to Tokyo…again!
Thanks for the chance to win, Maggie!
~Denise A.
Go To Europe is on my Life List, and if the child care comes through, I will be going with my husband in a couple of weeks! Fingers crossed!
I’m currently in my first semester of grad school – one of my life list items is to get a Master’s degree in Library Science. It’s been a lot of work but so much fun!
I think the most important item on my life list for me is “get counselling”.
I’m two sessions in and already I can tell this is the best thing I could do for myself and my kids. I can finally cry again.
i’d like to take a pottery retreat.
i’d also love to have this bag
I would love to have all these things. Working on one of my life list items as I type this!
So many things on my life list hinge on other things happening. So I want to re-cultivate my list to include more do-it-now things.
Awesomeness!
Goal: run a 5k
Most things on my list have to do with not screwing up raising my girls! So far so good, if I do say so myself! Fingers crossed…
I’m working on my life list, but one thing I have always wanted to do is sing/act/dance in a musical.
Another Sara! But without the h. Biggest item on my life list is in gear: I’m starting nursing school in the fall, after 10 years as operations manager of a small company. I’ve been coveting those flats since the first time you featured them!
I want to drink a beer at my Grandfather’s brother’s pub in Ireland.
Take my daughter to the Maui cottage where her father and I honeymooned.
Run a half marathon in 2 hrs. I hope to make that happen next weekend.
I want to create a book of all my go-to recipes to pass along to my daughter when she leaves for college.
I’ve always wanted to learn to crochet — now that I am pregnant, making a baby blanket seems like a good idea! I started last week. I’m 24 weeks pregnant, so we will see how this goes.
See a Disney theme park through the eyes of my child.
There are so many things I want to accomplish – number one is figuring out how to check out ebooks from my ipad!
Every year, I host a holiday baking day … and every year I get a little closer to my Life List goal to bake 1,000 different kinds of cookies.
Eating them is just extra credit.
I am committed to going to my hot yoga class every single day for one month… Eventually, I would love attend a yoga retreat in India!
Oh my gosh, all of those things are so beautiful! I’d love to attend a Mighty Summit one year. Seems like everyone comes out of it so… invigorated!
#18 Learn to draw, old school with black ink and paper.
Someday I’ll take a trip to Copenhagen.
An item on my life list is to learn to cook – and to be a bit more adventurous in doing so. Thus far, there have been a few failures, but some really good dishes as well!
I’d like to take my boys camping in a National Park – Yellowstone, I think, for starters…
My life list is online at http://katespov.blogspot.com/2011/04/100-things.html. I made this after seeing the idea on your site last year. I’m still working to having 100 items listed. Having this list has been a great motivator to accomplish things I want to do. It’s amazingly simple and works so well!
This year I crossed off a big item on my life list — getting to know my grandmother better. I moved in on her birthday last year, and she passed away on her birthday this year. I’m so glad I went for it.
to make a kick a** osso bucco!
I have started to learn to juggle. My kids are learning faster than me
but I’m making progress!
One of the things on my life list that I’ve been hemming and hawing about is running a marathon. This is the year I’m going to do it! I’ve already signed up (and paid up) so there’s no turning back!
That laptop case looks pretty nice
I want to take a cruise around Alaska. Definitely on life list. I heart those shoes – I would wear them on the way to Alaska.
One of my favorite life list items is to create a scholarship at my undergrad alma mater, even if it’s just something small like a fund to buy books for the year.
#1 is to write the list down!
On my life list – learn how to make my favourite childhood sweet snack
http://www.cookingandme.com/2011/08/vella-kozhukkattai-sweet-modak-vinayaka.html
i’m a new, first time mom, so my primary goal right now is to raise a good person. of course, i think she’s perfect already
Oh how fun! The top thing on my life list is to become a mother…here’s hoping!
Two that are very doable:
1. Dance to a street musician
2. Tell a stranger how beautiful they are
I want to travel to Russia, and I want to work with marine mammals (major career change there!)
What great giveaways!
start a blog and post every day– just did it this week and so far, so good!
I just wrapped up my 101 in 1001 list, and now I’m feeling kind of aimless. I didn’t finish the list but I learned a lot about myself.
One of the items on my life list is to return to school for a second degree, diploma, certification or professional designation.
Living abroad – getting closer to this one every day. Soon soon, I will!
Holy smokes! That is a fantastic gift bag!
On my life list — have my artwork shown in a gallery.
I got to check off “listen to a whip-poor-will in the dark woods” just a few weeks ago. Next is “get into grad school”. Sign me up!
Someday I will drink champagne while riding in a hot air balloon.
On my list: take my daughter to Paris for my 40th birthday, and her 8th (we have the same birthday).
We just found out we are pregnant, so my top desire is to be a good mother. I’m pretty scared. I have so many items on my list!
Now this is what I call a giveaway! Something on my list: Take my Cecilia up the Statue of Liberty.
I love a good tote and those shoes are awesome!
Lovely things; you Mighty Folks do gift bags right.
In September I crossed an item off my Life List. I went on a cruise for the first time!
Travel to Borneo and volunteer at an orangutan rescue camp. Related – cuddle a baby orangutan.
Part of my life list is to be a inspiration to others and carry your message about the impact a Mighty Life List can have. So I’m starting a Mighty Girlfriends’ Club here in Detroit where we’ll come together monthly to help each other accomplish our life goals. We kick off tomorrow night!
Life list: Cross stitch a Christmas stocking for the husband and each kid (we have 3).
The first thing on my life list for this year is to actually start my life list…
I want to take my son to China. I think he’s approaching the age where we can do that.
Be a part of a flash mob (but not the kind that robs a 7-11).
Teach my son to sew, with a sewing machine.
Life list item #10: Maintain a blog about something I care about that will help others. CHECK!
I’m hoping to cross an item off my list this weekend: Run in a 5k. Then, it’s off to Camp Mighty where I know I’m going to be inspired and motivated.
Thanks for offering this giveaway!
My life list is pretty darn long, but to pick just one…
run a marathon!
I signed up for a photography class that starts in two weeks. Check one thing off the life list
This summer I completed an item on my Life List – I went ZIP LINING!! It was great fun and I can’t wait to go again!!
In a week and a half I’m heading to the Galapagos then into the Amazon Rainforest. Two items on my life list. Yay! I can’t wait
For my Life List, I want to go to Australia.
I’ve crossed a few items off my life list this year: run a 5k with my dad & walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (from Brooklyn to Manhattan) @ night. Next up: hot air balloon ride & croissants in Paris.
btw – winning this bag full of goodies would make my year . . . just sayin’.
Thanks to inspiration from Mighty Girl and Mighty Summit attendees I have started my own life list. Thank you! I’m hoping to cross “make pasta from scratch” off the list in the coming months. First item on my list is “finish this list”.
I want to take my family on a road trip to the Black Hills, once my kids are old enough to remember it. (With a 1-year-old and a 23-week fetus, not *quite* there yet, but therefore have plenty of time to make sure it happens.) Something so quintessential American about this to me.
Thanks for the cool Mighty Summit giveaway!
A big item on my life list is to get my husband and kids up to Michigan where i grew up, but more specifically, to take them to Mackinaw Island. I went so many times as a child and even got to stay at the Grand Hotel a time or two. I want to share the beauty, the quiet simplicity, make some Mackinaw memories of our own. My husband has had crippling panic attacks since he was a child, so until recently this hasn’t been possible. After much prayer and searching and hoping, we have found a psychiatrist he loves and medication that is helping. He has hope for some relief for the first time in his life and is talking realistically about light travel. Now we just continue his healing and work on our budget and i think we can make this happen.
I don’t know how many people have something as mundane as a vacation back home on their list, but I live far across the country and my parents have never even met my two children because travel has been almost impossible for us and very difficult for them as well. But my husband and I are working hard to get past out own issues to make a good life for our children.
yay life lists! they are really helping us to focus on our needs and our dreams and make real change happen.
List item #6 Bring my young son back to where I lived in Salzburg so he can eat a soft pretzel as big as his head!
Own a car that makes me feel like driving faster.
Before the end of the year, I’m hoping to learn to bake bread, make pasta from scratch, get a subscription to the Washington Post, learn to french braid, and wear sequins on New Year’s Eve. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love everything! Especially those awesome travel shoes!! They would be awesome for my upcoming trip to Thailand
(Fingers crossed!)
Learn to sew pretty skirts for me to wear. I have the sewing machine and sewing notions, I just haven’t made the time. Totally a life list goal!
I’d love to learn to shoot well. Guns or arrows…I’m not picky. What?
finish my book!
Started yoga teacher training this year, one thing crossed off the mighty list!
On my life list: Dancing at a particular good friend’s wedding. This was a tricky one, because he happens to be gay — but now he’s seeing a wonderful person AND we have marriage equality in New York, so I think this one is getting crossed off before much longer!
Such lovely things! As a PhD student, the life list is covered in things like ‘get an article published in a major journal.’ I’m holding onto your idea for swimming with those bioluminescent plankton as a celebration for when it happens!
Number 1 on my life list is to quit this job. Wish me luck as it will happen sometime within the next year.
And if I don’t win, all these things are going on my Christmas wish list!
One item on my life list has been to learn how to can – I finally took a class and have canned applesauce and pickles so far! It is more empowering than I thought it would be.
#29 Make princess leia cupcakes! I am an avid baker and always looking to try out new recipes and new decorating ideas and I saw these a few months ago and am now just looking for the right time to make them;>
I want to visit Israel. My Jewish roots and my Christian beliefs demand it.
One of my life list items is to take my daughters to Cape Cod to show them where I grew up every summer with my Nana, the beach, and uptown.
Figure out how to make that seaweed salad they serve at sushi restaurants!
(I’ve been entering this since you started the giveaway, and would love to win!)
Hang Gliding is high on my life list!
We crossed off the biggest thing on my list in August: Buy a house. (!!) I think my list needs reassessing. I don’t really feel moved to make a quilt anymore. I think I’m going to have to add “Attend the Mighty Summit” to the list.
If I can’t make it to the Summit, I would love a bag as a consolation prize.
It may sound like a cliche, but at the top of my life list right now is to get married to my wonderful fiancee. We’ve been engaged for a while now, and due to life and other circumstances, we just haven’t been able to have our wedding yet. I’m really hoping that it comes soon though!
Just crossed off a design project item from my life list, time to add a new one…or two or three. It’s a work in progress!
I’m on my way to planting a vegetable garden and canning everything in it. This year I did pickles and green beans. Next year I think I might be able to manage tomatoes as well. But I won’t cross this off my list until I’ve gotten to beets, carrots, and corn.
My Life List has stalled. Every thing has come to screetching hault while we wait to close on our house. I guess this is OK. For now. But I got some big plans, the hair is now to the tops of my shoulders, going to New York next 4th. Slowly going to cross some things off that list.
That’s some seriously cool stuff. I could use some seriously cool in my life right now.
See the sakura – cherry blossoms in bloom in Japan.
Last night I crossed off a life-list item: I finished testing with the local roller derby league and I am in — after almost a year of training and testing, I’m in! WOOT! I need shoes…all $$ has gone to skates, lol.
Fall in love, get married, fall more in love.
And, since I got engaged this past Sunday, I would say I’m well on my way to accomplishing that life-long goal!
I’ve never seen some of these give-a-away items before. The 5 ring necklace is a terrific idea. I wonder if it jingles like dog tags? I’ve also wondered about those shoes…like what was the purpose of having them roll up. Now I know! Thanks for the generous giveaway! Here’s to random picking!
I’ve never gone to a fancy New Year’s Eve party. I’d really like to do that.
Learn to surf. I am taking lessons over the holidays in Costa Rica, wish me luck!
i have been coveting those flats since you wrote about them the first time. let me tell you – the gap “city flats” are a poor substitute
Life list item #3: Find a great job that furthers social justice and equality. In progress — sent 21 resumes last night!
Spend 2 months traveling through Italy and visiting the cities my great grandparents are from.
The very tippy top of my life list was to become fluent in a foreign language, and to move closer to my family on the east coast. I just moved to Quebec to accomplish both!
oooh, such loveliness. next on my life list is renewing/getting passports for the whole family, and taking my girls to Paris. i want pictures of them running through Luxembourg Gardens while they’re still young enough to skip, sing, and play with pure joy and confidence.
I want to see the northern lights in Norway.
That dahlia necklace is amazing.
Thank you for inspiring me to even write a Life List, it has been such a great means to find guidance!
One of my dreams is to take my mother to Norway, so we can visit the towns and homes where her mother was raised.
On my life list is learning to drive a stick shift. My father tried to teach me once 15 years ago, on a hill, with my mother and younger brother in the backseat offering running commentary. The lesson lasted 10 minutes, which is the exact time it took for me to roll down said hill and crash into a chain link fence. I’m hoping my second attempt doesn’t prove nearly as traumatic.
When my grandparents can no longer live on their farm anymore (a very sad day we are all dreading), move my city-dwelling family there and live there for at least a year.
A few things from my list
*have a dress made
*eat at Ad Hoc restaurant
*help someone go to college
Recently crossed off a hot air balloon ride from my list! lovely giveaway!
Count me in! I want to finish writing the screenplay I’ve been working on.
I need those shoes!
Life list: sew a Halloween costume for my little boy.
My goal is two-fold, I want to bring my preemie baby home from the hospital and be the best mother I can be for her.
Programming is my knitting. I want to be super functional fluent in at least one programming language.
I also want to live in a place with winter.
I also want to play SYNTHESIZERS.
To see the Aurora Borealis.
So much good in there. So much good on here. Thank you.
I need to make an actual life list, instead of the vague thoughts floating in my head of things I’d like to do. This morning, the thing that catches my eye in the floating is seeing Europe on a big long train traveling vacation.
I definitely want to learn to speak another language (Spanish?). I don’t have to be fluent, but I’d want to be able to have a conversation…
I might try singing every morning, that could help! I want to learn to sew, learn to shut my mouth (only when necessary!) and wear cuter shoes.
Thanks for the giveaway Maggie! On my life list and possibly capable of being accomplished this year – can pickles and buy something at an auction (the kind with a real auctioneer)
my goal is pretty straight forward but incredibly necessary right now, to find a new job.
I’d like to learn how to sew something that I could wear, ultimately so that I can sew something that my future kids could wear. So far I’ve only been able to sew an oddly-shaped tote bag, but it’s progress!
Lovely giveaway! I’m about to knock “have a baby” off my life list.
My #1 thing on my life list is to learn to make pants for my daughter. I keep buying these adorable pants for my daughter for $15, when I know I could make them for, like, $1. So, I bought a sewing machine and a serger and it’s time to sit down in front of it and buckle down and get it done.
My #2 is to make some friends. I moved to Chicago 4 years ago and I have yet to form any real friendships. I’ve been making excuses, but I don’t have a support system here, and I need it – badly. So, if anyone reads this and lives in the Northern Chicago suburbs and has a whole in their social circle that needs to be filled with someone who is shy but loyal, let me know.
Fulfilling one of my goals right now – having a baby! Currently gestating, due the beginning of May.
I’d like to enter a photo in a photography contest.
Life List goal: Create a life list!! I want to so bad — My first goal would probably be to become a mother — which will happen in February! Hopefully I will have time while on maternity leave to create my list. What better inspiration to create a life list than a new life!
What a lovely give away!
A life list item towards which I’m making progress: complete a yoga teacher training program.
A life list item that remains further in the future: see the northern lights.
I’d like to bake my own bread one day. And to win one of these goodies! Woo!
On my life list: Enter and win a giveaway!
Life list goal – start a life list!
Here’s one from my list: Get over myself and try a water aerobics class.
One item that’s been on my life list for a while (and is getting checked off this month!) is to learn to knit. My Grandma would be proud!
What a beautiful grouping of goodies.
I’d like to bake something from scratch at least once a month for a year to give to friends.
Start a family!
On my life list, to be accomplished in the next 12 months:
- take a road trip with my son
- volunteer on a farm
- buy an entire animal (cow, pig), and cook every piece of it
Make pad thai from scratch!
2012 will be the year that I host a retreat. 36 hours of silence for overworked and over stimulated folks, myself included. I don’t know when it will happen, but a related life list item is a vacation by myself. With no room for guilt in my suitcase!
OH My Goodness! All of these things are awesome but I would love love the flats or the necklace (Practical and inspiring!)
On my life list..and i’m working on it..is to step into the possibility of my creativity becoming what I do for a living instead of my 7:30-5 Day job.
Love the giveaway booty! The necklaces are beautiful.
Create a life list. Your website is so inspiring. I’m was kind of anti-life lists, but you have slowly but surely changed my mind.
I want to get up the gumption to believe that the things I make are pretty enough and useful enough that someone will want to buy them. I have a hard time believing that I am good enough, or whatever. SO perhaps these are really TWO things on my life list: to really believe in myself and to just do it!
What a lovely giveaway! One of the goals on my list is to grow the confidence to do more paid freelance photography jobs. I need to make the time to practice, practice, practice and then go out there and get me some clients.
One of the things on my life list is to start riding my bike to work on a regular basis. It would be better for the environment and would count as my daily exercise!
See the silverback gorillas in Uganda!
I realized how many of my life list items are travel related after thinking about my “must do’s”. I think my biggest item in that subcategory is living in another country for at least 6 months.
From the life list: live on a small farm.
I definitely need to go sky diving at some point in my life. And ride in a hot air balloon.
I want to run. I have a condition that makes that difficult, but not impossible. I am getting ready to start the Couch to 5k program and I can’t wait to feel the wind in my hair!
Thank you for including Canada in the giveaway! I have lofty goals on my life list like give a keynote and become a VP (of a department at work, not like America) but what I’m tackling next is “have curly hair” — I have always wanted it!
On my life list… to run a mile without stopping – and actually enjoy it!
Life List…to win one of these internet giveaways! Come on Random.org!!
Life list: commit to exercising regularly!!!
Have an adventure in Italy with my soon to be husband so he can see the town where his grandfather came from.
Nice options! Love the bamboo necklace. So pretty.
On my life list: get my PhD. I’m four years in and starting to see that I might actually finish one day!
One item I’m hoping to check off soon is to study a language in another country.
WOW, pretty great loot!
Mine is not a very exciting one but I feel it would be life changing if I would really (really) clean out my closet and be honest about what I wear and what needs to go away!
on my life list: master a new yoga pose. i’m thinking peacock?!
I’m pretty sure I need those shoes
I love it all!
I have a two-year old son; my newest addition to my Life List is seeing him light up at Disneyland.
Next up on my life list:
Get Married
See San Francisco
All happening in about a week. Yay! Also, I will be using your guide to SF, Maggie. Great info!
My only Life List goal for this year is short, but hardly simple:
Complete my grad school applications.
My ultimate mighty list goal: love myself.
your life list concept is so wonderful. one thing on my life list is to go on an archaeological dig. i have essentially no training or education that would qualify me for this – but i’d love to do it just the same!
Spend a day with my sons eating exclusively foods that have no redeeming nutritional value.
Visit Sweden!!
Finish the big writing project on my desk.
on my life list is to get my health issues in check – it’s currently underway! I’ve been able to get off my blood pressure medication thanks to meditation, exercise and a vegan diet; and am working on the rest.
one thing on my life list, go to an isolated tropical island somewhere for a while. was never as much a priority as it is now.
I’d like to learn to knit. I have books, yarn, and needles but seem to also need a third hand.
I want to run the Eurasia marathon in Turkey!
My nephew is due next month so #36 on my list “Be a great auntie” is in the on-deck circle. Can’t wait!
I love this giveaway!
On my life list is to get a piano and resume the piano lessons I took as a kid. I want to learn to play Rachmaninov!
Life list: watch the humpback whales migrate.
Next on my life list is to submit 10 fiction (or non-fiction) pieces to 10 different submission calls within 1 month. I have 6 calls lined up for December that are all appropriate…now I just need to finish the pieces!
I am still working on my life list, (can I have on my life list to write my life list, just wondering?) but I would love to learn how to make edible bread from scratch. Everytime I try it doesnt work out. I get a dense loaf or should I say lump of something resembling bread. I have a friend who can ‘whip up’ some bread like nobody’s business, she WILL teach me this winter
Maggie, thank you for being you and bringing all of us crazy people together with your life list and for getting all of our sorry selves in gear to do our lists. *hugs from a stranger*
I want to take my family to Asia. Thank you for this amazing giveaway!
Fashion upgrade. It’s slow progress to kick off my (long ago) college days uniform, but a new haircut helped!
To attend Camp Mighty and learn how to use the saber to open champagne! And to actually put pen to paper and start my life list.
Life list item: learn to play the mandolin so I can duel with my daughter on her ukulele. Thanks to you and other summiteers for inspiring all of us to define and document our dreams.
i have a life list BECAUSE of you, maggie. so thank you for that.
for every one thing i cross off, i managed to add two more to do, but by far the thing i am proudest of recently crossing off is reaching 60lbs lost and putting me halfway to goal! it also put me closer than i have ever been to crossing off the Number One- skydiving.
To live in Italy for an extended period of time, maybe a year or two.
To finish my first knitted sweater.
I have “spend a day at a winery” on the top of my list. I have a feeling you will help me cross that off.
my big life list goal? to knit 10,000 items for charity in my lifetime!
To eat lobster in Maine. My husband and I have never been to the Northeast together, and this is high on our list. Amazing collection of goodies!
To be healthy and inspire those around me to try for the same!
This has got to be the most amazing giveaway I have ever entered. Woah. How generous. I’m working on a gratitude project. I’m trying to focus on one thing that I’m thankful for each day and doument it.
Scuba diving. Anywhere!
To go to Japan. It’s intimidating to me to go (price, language…), but I would love to experience the culture of this country!
My goal for the year is to let go, and stop telling people how hard I’m finding it to have a baby.
Wait – let me explain.
When I was small, a series of tragedies in my family (some truly horrific, some everyday, all at once) imprinted on me the feeling that if you love something, you stand a good chance of losing it.
My rational brain knows this is absurd, but my small, terrified, emotional brain won’t let me forget this lesson.
And now that I have a beautiful, lovely, amazing little girl, I’m paralyzed at the thought of something happening to her. And I’ll act tough and focus on the difficulties when someone asks me about her, or compliments her.
Soon she will understand what I am saying, but she won’t understand why I’m saying these things instead of the things I whisper to her when it’s just the two of us… that I love her, that I’m so happy to have her, that she makes me laugh a million times a day.
So my mighty life list is might small at the moment, but I figure this is pretty important.
On my life list – cook a Turkey. Going to give it a try this holiday season.
Maggie! I always hope, hope, hope that I get something from your always fabulous giveaways. Pick me, pick me!
Thank you for this, you inspire me more than you’ll know. I am up to 17 bullets on my LL right now, about to cross one off in 3 weeks, eat in Chinatown in SF! But the one I am really looking forward to planning is road tripping from denver to the pacific coast. I miss the beach.
I need to take yoga/meditation seriously. Learning to breathe will be the hardest thing for me, but absolutely necessary.
Can I aadd this to my life list?
I feel like going big this year. I’m going to finally make a living off of things I create.
And master the pie crust.
On my life list: Write a thank you note to all of my teachers.
Make a bestseller list is tops for me. My first book comes out in March. Fingers crossed!
Next on my life list, France for the 100th anniversary in 2013!
To visit every Tudor grave.
I just crossed two items off my list in one fell swoop: take a vacation with my sister and visit California. Both were just as awesome as I had hoped.
On my life list – learn how to do those really loud wolf whistles. I can whistle, but only the regular, happy tune kind. There’s been a number of times lately where I needed to get people’s attention and being able to whistle loudly would have really come in handy.
Learn to make really good bread…I’ll do it someday!
Take a lampworking class and make my own beads! Even if I just end up with a glass blob, I will wear it happily.
Hooray!
On my life list: go on safari!
My number one on my life list was start a family and judging by my belly, things are coming along nicely. A bag of goodies would be a nice treat for me!
On my life list – Meet Mighty Girl!
Life List #42 – get my picture taken in a boat on the water, with the Sydney Opera House behind me. Going to happen in a few short weeks – I’m headed to Australia on my honeymoon!
Lovely gifts from lovely people. You had me at ‘Sarah’.
Hike across the Grand Canyon. It seems like if I can do that, I could do ANYthing!
Volunteer on an archeological dig!
(Those necklaces are both so pretty. And so appropriate for an archeological dig, don’t you think?)
as a mom of two little guys my goal right now is to simply write a life list. it will be so nice to have a list that doesn’t send me around the grocery store or keep track of errands or necessary home improvements…
I just started my life list this month and realized that Maggie is my Oprah. I’ve found so many good blogs and ideas through you, thank you.
Number fifteen on the life list: learn to design and sew my own clothes
I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano. It’s such a simple goal, but I can’t wait!
Crossed of my list – go to Turkey. Working on – becoming fluent in Turkish – just started Turkish 2!
Finalize the divorce. Onwards and upwards!
Before the end of the year, I’d like to hike the Appalachian Trail. That could happen, I think.
Travel all over Europe!
Wow – what a wonderful collection of delights!
I want to take my kids on a month long vacation to Europe. They will be teenagers soon and it would be great to have grand adventure together before they go through that “my parents are embarassing” phase!
What a gorgeous collection of stuff! I want to ride my own motorcycle, eat street food in the Old City of Jerusalem, kiss in the rain in London, and play my ukulele in public
But what if my name actually is Sarah? The first thing on my life list is to actually write down my life list. Absent that, the biggest thing on my list already happened. Get married to the man of my dreams at the top of Vail mountain, on skis, in a dress. And then we skied down, hand in hand, and are living happily ever after.
Oh, what lovely things! Your summits always sound so inspiring, Maggie.
California road trip!
Sail across the Atlantic in 35-ish-foot-long sloop. Has been on my “list” since I was seven, probably.
I want to take Spanish language classes in the next year for sure.
Next year I hope to (successfully) defend my PhD thesis!
My three year old daughter’s middle name is Sakura. I want to take her to both Washington DC and Japan to see the trees after which she is named.
I have a couple food related items on my life list like make butter, mozzarella cheese, and yogurt.
I want to have monthly dinner parties with friends.
Get my personal website up and running and learn the basics on guitar!
Driving the pan-american highway! (then hopefully grad school)
I accomplished a major life goal by having a beautiful baby boy in august. A current life goal is to go to New York City.
I am crossing off a HUGE thing on my list this coming May. A BABY!
I had a baby this year, which was a pretty big deal. I still want to buy a house, but that’s on hold until we figure out where we are going to live long term. Maybe a good item would be to get through the holidays at my in-laws without secretly wanting to kill someone?
Something life list-y, you say? One of my new goals is to master hand embroidery so I can make incredible housewarming/birthday/anniversary/Happy Tuesday gifts.
I’m busily working away at #21: Have some babies. I figured I’d start with one baby (due in Dec) and see how I like the thing.
One of my top 5 list items is “dress cute”. Which doesn’t sound that challenging, but I trend toward the frumpy end of the spectrum, and crave many of the thrown-together-yet-look-effortlessly-awesome looks I see on Mighty Girl.
A trip to India with my daughter. She’s 7 and says she wants to be a world traveler. Is that cool or what?
Every time you feature the dahlia jewelry, I think about buying one. Maybe I’ll finally go through with it.
on my list is SKYDIVING! I HAVE ALWAYS wante do it and am at a place where I am ready!
Awesome bag of goodies!
I want to learn how to do upholstery.
I want to stop pinning and start doing–unleash my inner creative self!
I’ve always wanted to visit Alaska and I just booked my ticket for next June!
After multiple losses, I’m finally eight weeks pregnant with our last baby. It’s been a huge struggle, and I’ll be thrilled when I can say I beat the odds!
Go parachuting. Preferably with my 6-year-old son.
one thing that has been on my life list for a long time is to start my own dessert business. i can proudly say i began the process and have my first event in 2 weeks!
What a lovely giveaway. On my life list: become a runner to experience that runner’s high everyone talks about, and also get my PhD.
Figure out what I want to do when I grow up. With any luck, something that involves writing and advocacy. With even more luck, this will also involve a paycheck. And visit Australia to hang out with Lloyd and Tigh. Not necessarily in that order.
Such lovely things!
First item on the life list I just started writing this very morning: read 1000 books.
I do school year life lists sort of a new beginning with the kids as they start off a new grade…
This year: return to writing, use my camera more and take time for tea with friends every month.
It would be nice to win at something!
Next up on my life list: milk a cow. I need to find me a cow and get to squeezin’!
i just checked “visit hawaii” off my life list!
i also added “go on a sunset hot balloon ride”
One on my life list: To re-learn all of the kanji I have forgotten and recommit myself to studying Japanese!
Love these giveaways and your site! Always inspiring.
I want to hold a baby badger.
Funny how part of what the life list shows you is to jump at opportunities as they come along. Soon I will be going to Korea, something I never would have dreamed I’d do. In the meantime, however, it’s time to finish writing that book.
One day I will make my own jam.
I am very neglectful of ME. One of my goals was to find something good I could do for me, that benefits as many aspects of myself as possible. How is that for vague? To that end, I found a wonderful community acupuncture practice, in my neighborhood, that is affordable to me. I now go once a week, and it’s heaven.
My life list includes going to England to visit my family. My mom and I are finally planning to go next Spring and I’m even more excited about the trip because I get to go with her!
I’m leaving on an epic road trip with my best friends on Monday! Hooray!
Just checked off “take ferry from Sausalito to the SF Farmer’s Market”!
Life list item: Spend the first Christmas after getting tenure in Paris. (The last time I was there was Christmas season during grad school.)
Someday I will learn to put on make-up like a grown-up.
I really want to start a non-profit based on helping low-income families be self-sufficient (through gardening, making own clothes, etc.) I’m still struggling with the how, but I’m only 25, so hopefully I have a little time to work on that part
I put this on my life list this week: Party in Newfoundland.
What a great goody bag! I’m still working on making a life list, so this might be the thing to make me sit down and draft one.
One thing on my life list is to taking a painting class and eventually create a passable landscape. Thanks for the fantastic giveaway!
I’m going to swim with the bioluminescents in Puerto Rico in two weeks!
One item on my life list has always been to go to Hawaii. I am fulfilling that dream in January by participating in a mission through my church. We’ll be going to the island of Oahu to one of the poorest and impoverished parts of the state, where we’ll be helping homeless and poor people in many ways. I can’t wait.
Someday, I’ll get back into drawing. But more pressingly, I need some good friends.
This might finally be the weekend I make it up to the mountains to see the aspens change!
One of the things on my life list is to learn German. Other than a few catch phrases I learned for a trip last year, I haven’t progressed much further. I think it’s time to enroll in some classes!
Tomorrow I’m completing my Reiki Master class – it’s been on my list 4 years. I have mixed feelings about crossing it off the list.
I am getting ready to fulfill a big life list item: live overseas. Seriously, I’m packing right now!
This bag of goodies would fit so well into my suitcase!
I want to write a letter of rec for a future college student. I am a Therapist and I work with a lot of kids. I hope one day I can stand and bare witness to their hard work and dedication to change.
One of my life list goals this year is to finish a Sunday New York Times crossword all by myself. I’ve gotten close, but haven’t quite been able to accomplish it yet. But I’ll keep trying until I do it.
Oooh, what a great goodie bag. I especially like the necklaces, and I’ve always wanted one of those totally preppy totes. I just checked off a couple things on my life list last month — backpack in Alaska and see orcas in the wild (WAY cooler than Sea World!)
I had it on my life list to get more serious about my health. So far this year I’ve lost about 30 lbs. and the difference in how I feel is amazing.
I’m still working on my list. My favorite one so far- Read a book in the reading room at the NY Public Library.
After seeing it in the design*sponge book, I want to start a collection of jars of sand from the beaches I visit. That means I have an excuse to go back to all of the beaches I’ve already been too. Woo hoo!
Worth trying for the flats alone!
Oh man, I adore ALL of these things! I finally checked “go rock-climbing” off my list and love it so much I have to go again. I was always a bit intimidated but it was SO great– I’m glad I did it
On the life list: Visit Gibraltar and take photos with the barbary macaques!
Big on my life list and I’m actively working on it: Publish a photography book!!
I just started putting my mighty list together. One big thing for me would be to take a chance on myself and follow my heart to become a real baker.
A recent addition to my life list is: learn to make French macarons (http://www.michigirls.com/2010/08/10/life-list/). My husband and I recently took a class and I think once I successfully make them at home a couple times this will be crossed off!
Re-upholstery. A wing-back chair, or maybe an old and beautifully carved sofa, or just an ottoman. I want to re-purpose a piece that my family will live with for years and will become a part of our family history. Or at least looks cute for a couple of years.
Also, take cello lessons again. Last time was when I was pregnant with my baby – now 10 years old.
I am a mere seven weeks away from crossing off a big life list goal–finishing graduate school. The homestretch is going to be killer.
Working on spending more time enjoying the present versus worrying about the future.
On my life list is to own a beach cottage. My husband and I have been looking at property along the ocean, and we’re one step closer to making the dream a reality.
Run a half marathon!
I’m putting the finishing touches on a paper — hopefully will soon be crossing “publish an academic paper” off my list soon!
My life-list item I’m focusing on now is having an urban vegetable garden. I love me some kale and beet and cannot wait until I’m able to just go out to my garden to get them!
Make a cherry pie from scratch!
Two things on my list that I hope to accomplish this winter: learn to play chess and learn to knit sweaters for my girls. I’m just finishing my first big knitting project now (a blanket) and then I’ll start on a sweater!
Here’s my full list! http://mostdaysiwin.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-list.html
I want to go skiing…I’ve never been and have always wanted to go! Woo hoo for giveaways!
Ahhhh I want to win so bad just for the Tieks!! I’ve been drooling over them for ages!
I want to go on a mission trip to India.
Dreams…
Next item I’m planning to cross-off: Go to Camp Mighty. (Not pandering, honest!)
I love the life list.
My little goal is to do something little every day that brings me joy, and I’m doing ok at it. My big goal is to own a cabin in the mountains.
To do before I die: learn to surf…
I want to visit 50 botanical gardens around the world. With a stop at the Huntington Gardens in LA on a work trip a few weeks ago, I’m halfway there!
I want to have a baby! (For some reason, it’s the scariest item on my list)
Complete my own happiness. It’s a life-long project.
Spend at least 2 months traveling Europe by train.
The newest addition to my life list is to get a cake that I’ve made published in a magazine.
My Life List hangs on my fridge, and I spotted this one today during breakfast: Visit South America. Time to start saving for those plane tickets…
In the next year, I will make a terrarium and bench press 100 pounds. Someday, I will sing a whole song in key (this will require serious professional intervention), and drive my car on a racetrack.
You are nice, Maggie.
I am currently learning to skateboard. Here’s hoping I don’t need to pack clothes in that tote while I take my broken ass to the hospital.
I want to spend half the nights of a year sleeping outside.
On my life list – learn to ski! And I live in New England!
Love the flats.
This year we WILL have a garden at our elementary school! It’s been on my Life List and finally starting to happen! It took me a while to figure out that I can’t do it all by myself but that I have a lot of fabulous parents to collaborate with!
I need to officially write down my life list. I have several things bouncing around in my head, but until they are in print they don’t seem attainable? Winning would be a nice kick in the rear.
I love that you are constantly making me think about what it is that I love and what makes me happy. It’s hard to make yourself a priority. Thanks!
My goal is to make 25 different pumpkin recipes this fall/winter.
I’d like to publish an article in an academic journal (and look sassy while I do it!) Thanks!
Hooray! Today is my birthday, and part of my celebration is to create my life list. No, I don’t have one, even though I’ve been following you for awhile. Anyway, the first item on my list is to run a 5k before my next birthday. I’m starting from scratch on that, so it’s a biggie, but not unachievable.
Thanks for the entry!
My most recent addition to my life list includes a multiday horse back trip through the andes. … And our tickets our booked for this November!
I want to eat at every Michelin-rated restaurant in California.
So many awesome prizes! Thanks for the chance to enter.
Fingers crossed! Random from my life list: #43 See a European soccer game live, preferably Man U.
My most recent addition to my life list is to enjoy looking forward to good things, rather than want them to happen all at once. For example, my husband and I have mapped out our financial plans, and hope to start shopping for a new home in about 5 years. I would love to be able to shop and move into a new home now, but being able to spend time looking forward to it is nice!
I so love the shoes! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Cook a goose.
Great prizes! I want to get enough stamps in my passport that I’ll need extra pages! Oh, and I want to learn how to make a delicious pie crust…from scratch!
I actually crossed off two things on my list last weekend:
Eat lobster in Maine (holy cow was it delicious),
and at the same time added a new state to my “visit all 50 states” goal.
something i’ve recently added to my life list: become an employee owner of new belgium brewing. it pairs well with learning how to home brew …
I want to make my own quilt and have a garden (for the second one, I might need to move out of my apartment first)
On my life list? finishing my phd!
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Life List: Visit all 50 states and 7 continents.
Become a US citizen. It’s been on my list for some time and this year I am going to fill out the paperwork and make it happen. Nothing like adding one more passport to the pile of travel documents every time we head home to Australia for a visit.
I love that the Life List entries have such range… consecutive on mine: Reprise high school trip to Scotland, floss daily, learn to knit.
Adore the flats.
Make more art is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I recently found out a proposal I wrote for an art show was accepted so I’ll be making that piece of art soon!
I’d love to learn to belly dance before I die! Thanks for the chance to win these awesome goodies!
excellent giveaway!
my goal: buy a house and make it my home. and have nary a white wall in the place.
On my list is to tell a story at The Moth. The thing is I go to The Moth all the time as an audience member. I need to kick myself and make it happen.
Mighty Love!
A couple things I’ve crossed off my list this year: witnessed the birth of my nephew, climbed my second 10,000′+ mountain (AND did a multiple day backpacking trip in the process, double-dipping for those two Life List items), and I joined two new ladies’ groups that are entirely outside my circle of friends, in an effort to meet new people and push past my comfort zone.
Take a trip to a foreign country, just me and my daughter.
Also I’d love to attend a Might Summit one year.
Getting a good camera and learning how to take photos!
One item on my lifelist is to open a restaurant! You’ve really inspired me.
Most of my life list revolves around travel, however this year I have added achievements of aa more personal nature. I want to enjoy my job more and make more of an effort to be less of a hermit.
Buying a house. That’s something on the life list.
by the end of the year, my goal is to quit biting my nails, for real.
High on my life list: Take my kids to Ireland
Thanks for hosting this contest! I love those shoes.
On my life list is to go skydiving. My husband used to weigh too much to do so, but now he’s well under the maximum weight, so we’re both excited to cross this off our lists!
Excellent array, thanks!
Life list item- Learn Spanish.
I want to finish my redecorating projects before my next baby comes! (only 4 weeks to go!)
My life list changes all the time…one that’s still on there is taking my son on safari while he’s still a kid.
See the red tide…
Which I am driving to San Diego for TOMORROW!!
You are such an inspiration. I wish I were as good at examining myself as you are. Or maybe I just wish I allowed myself to be as honest as you are.
I want to learn to play piano.
Life List item 26: Need to learn how to use the sewing machine I’ve owned for a year. I have so many ideas for projects, but I can’t figure out the threading. Very cute items, I must say.
This year we got a dog, so check that off the list … I would love to host something akin to a Mighty Summit for all the amazing and inspirational ladies I know … I think that just got added to the list!
i want to do a photography show with my former sister-in-law and co-blogger, holly.
those shoes? AMAZING!
Life item list: Do NaNoWriMo this November, and write a novel in a month. It will require the application of arse to seat of chair, but still.
Have baby (just about a month to go on this one). Make perfect omelette. :0)
I would like to learn to (and not be afraid of) make really good bread. Bread scares me, man.
Hmm. I’m sad to see that the T&Cs now say “Open to US and Canada only” as I don’t live in those places. But I am going to enter anyway, and if I win, I’m happy to pay postage, or sacrifice the large items. I lust after that beautiful five ring necklace though. I *NEED* it!
From my life list: Visit the Amalfi coast in Italy and make tarte au citron from the amazing lemons that grow there.
I want to drive my family across America. Spend an entire summer in an RV.
I want to work at Alta one season and ski bum for 6 months(and I’m already 40!)
Life List Item: Have Sangria and Tapas in Spain!
Happening in 2 weeks! yay.
This year has been unreal, so many “this wasn’t on my life list but damn it should have been” moments, that only now am I returning “in proper” to my published one. I’m making a 5 for the year list..maybe that will help.
I would love to win! It’s my 31st birthday this week and I love all of these items. You have great taste, Maggie!
I will write a feature for Alberta Views.
I LOVE the beautiful items you picked – so great! On my life list is to see more of the US. I would love to go to NYC or maybe have a beach vacation in Florida!
To return to Paris…in some tangerine Tieks.
I WILL take the GMAT and apply to grad school within a year. Thanks!
I’m ticking so many things off the list in the next few months: Run a half marathon, write a book, teach my husband to waltz, have an opera recital and surprise someone with an airplane ticket.
I have hit upon something – meditation! ta-da! – that has given a depth to my list and life that I’d been longing for. I struggled for a while (and have commented here before) that what I really wanted – things like being more connected, a sense of belonging, a sense of being known – I was having trouble pinning down. How does one chase those things down to cross them off? Well, I don’t think one does, exactly.
Meditation, while not yielding anything tangible, other than the realization that I have stupidly inflexible hips (so long, youth!), has cracked a door that I didn’t know was there. Nothing has happened, really. But it’s reaching toward the core of something that feels important. That’s all I can say for now.
That tote is meant for me! My name is Sarah! As are the shoes. I really think they would love my feet.
Anyway, if you’re into giving things away, I would love to attend your next event . . . . . .
Be well. – SAWK
I want to organize my office. Seriously, that’s on my list – I work from home and I want one of those tidy, organized offices where you just KNOW the person working there likes their job. And can find things when then need them.
I just became a flight attendant (“have a job i actually enjoy” is now checked off the list) and have added “Travel to a city I’ve never been to before without a plan” to the list. Every time I go somewhere new its for work or for a specific event… I just want to pick somewhere random, go, and figure it out when I get there, ‘Yes Man’ style.
The first item on my life list is to finish writing my life list. Ah, irony.
I have a short list: quit my job, raise my own children, be happier each day.
Lifelist: Organize a trip with all my girlfriends from high school. I have tried and failed for our 25th birthdays, and our 30th, I am hoping that 40 is the one!
New life list item: discreetly pay the check for the next member of our armed forces I see in uniform when I’m at a restaurant and/or bar. My father served in the Navy for over 20 years and I’d like to think that some random stranger picked up the check for him at some point to show their appreciation for his work.
Thanks for the opportunity – such pretty stuff! On my life-list is attending the Festival Chopin A Paris…or just PARIS! It WILL happen.
I want to buy my mother a farm, which would make a big dream of hers come true!
An item on my life list is ‘attend [my college society] initiation again someday.’ After an 8 year absence, I have set plans to do so this November with one of my closest college friends.
I am playing paintball for the first time later this month, and I just threw out all my socks and underwear that I would be embarrassed to be wearing if I got hit by a bus. Next up . . . vacation in Costa Rica.
I’d love to win!
I want to make writing a daily habit. I don’t care about getting published, I just want to stop waiting.
On my lifelist is to travel to SPACE! I just joined a company that is going to colonize Mars. Seriously.
Thank you for the oppourtunity for winning! YAY! Love your site
To spend a summer swimming, dock-lounging, and clam-baking in Maine.
find a life partner and make a life list with them.
Traveling to Spain is on my list – and we just booked a trip for next summer!
Love that necklace! On my Life List – sailing the Greek Islands with my husband.
I became (or maybe rather I am still becoming…) a mother this year! One day I want to take my daughter to Paris and giggle while we eat crepes.
I am starting on one of my life list items TODAY, which is leaving a perfectly responsible job much better than I found it to work for myself. I nervous and excited and, almost, overwhelmed by all of the potential.
The biggest thing on my life list right now is to finish all my courses and the exam to get my project management certification. Then to get my level 1 French. Then to move back to Ontario. And to finally, finally, FINALLY master making my grandmother’s sweet rolls with bacon and onion….mmmm…..
The goal at the top of my life list right now is complete my PhD.
life list= De-clutter. Declutter my home, declutter my body (lose weight), declutter by money (reduce my debt).
life list: debone a duck!
I’m 42 years old and I’ve always dreamed of dancing “on point.” I’ve been taking ballet classes, but oh, those toe shoes, I want my own pair!
I just realized last night that one of my life list items is to ice skate down a river in the Netherlands or maybe a Scandinavian country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_sELwTq9AA
Help my husband start up his dream business. It will happen!
On the life list: whale watching. Learn to bake bread. Grad School!
You are inspiring.
What an amazing giveaway! Thank you for your generosity.
I would love to take a first-class trip to Australia with my husband.
I wrangled a big helium balloon in a holiday parade. I really did. Once you do something wacky on your list… it gives you a whole new perspective. Don’t you think? Hmmmm, where am I gonna find a cow?
I love those shoes … would be perfect to have at work when I forgot to wear closed toes ones.
I’ve always wanted to bake a pie from scratch! It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, so it’s probably a good time for it!
On my life list to do within the next few months – start a column on healthy and tasty recipes – to combine my love of writing and food. Not quite ready to blog – will dip my toes by writing for my gym’s newsletter!
Life list: Establish a sensible closet with a few fantastic pieces I am excited about wearing.
Invite people over for dinner more often, even if it is nothing fancy.
On the life list: to publish a small book. humble, but mine.
I am not ashamed to admit that I did the Electric Slide in my office parking lot today. Thank you, XM radio and my mighty list for helping me throw caution to the wind.
I’d like to take the Transiberian Railway!
On Life List: Attend Mighty Summit !!
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On Life List: Attend the mermaid parade in NY
I am going to milk a cow by hand.
Visit Machu Picchu is on my life list. Going to do it next year!
On my life list – live abroad, which might happen this year!
I just added something to my life list this week–spending a month in Detroit. In the past year, I’ve read more than a dozen articles about Detroit, sat mesmerized by a photo series of “feral houses” and watched two documentaries about the changes being made there . . . it’s a strange and inspiring kind of revolution. My husband would never agree to move there and even I’ll admit it’s way, way out of my comfort zone. But, we’re going to go, and we’re going to spend a significant chunk of time there.
On my lifelist: To read through the lifetime of journals my grandmother left behind.
#12 – Have my own chickens in the back yard.
I still need to create a life list. I think it will help give me goals to think about long-term other than “find my house under the piles of baby clothes and dishes.” So, right now, Goal #1 on my Life List is to “Write a life list.”
Definitely want to travel to at least every continent…well minus Antartica…
Not sure when it will actually happen (when, not if), but very high on my life list is to introduce my daughter to her birthmother and siblings. She’s only 4 now, but I want her to know the other piece of her family.
Just found your blog and love it! My Life List is still in my head; you inspire me to write it down and be more intentional. One for-sure item: own a digital SLR camera!
‘Have another kid’ was number two on my lifelist. She’s almost four months old now, and the fattest, happiest person I’ve ever met. ‘Have another kid’ is now number one on my lifelist.
Great, great stuff!!
Seeing the northern lights has been on my Life List forever… and now a friend and I are planning a trip to Norway for that exact purpose. SO excited!
the idea of a life list scared me initially, because my gut reaction was stress about a number of goals that i was afraid i wouldn’t accomplish, and then i’d be disappointed in myself. so glad that i got over that
i still think that one of my top (and most scary) life list items will be investing in a house–one that’s not the home i live in, and is solely for me to fix up and re-sell. i’d like to have that done within the next 5 years.
Be a mama!
For spring of ‘12 I have a hot air ballon ride planned to celebrate my birthday.
Yoga and meditation every day for a month.
I just looked at my lifelist for the first time in a while and felt kind of sad at how over-ambitious it is — everything on it involves lots of money (travelling, paying off debt, getting my pilot’s license), or at least a long-term time investment (learning the guitar). But there at the bottom was camp at Hdden Springs again with friends or family, and I just went there with my husband last month! It’s a glorious campground in the Humboldt redwoods off the Avenue of the Giants where my family has been going since the 1960’s, and I hadn’t been in years. So yay, one thing off my list and I didn’t even know it.
A few years ago (well, a bit more than that), I made a life list. Then I proceeded to knock off pretty much everything I could on the list in rapid succession, and I’m left with a few really, really impossible goals that take an incredibly long time. Funny how a bunch of things that seemed so unattainable when I wrote the list turned out to be trivial to do once I actually decided to just do them.
On my life list: reupholster a couch all by myself.
Running a 10k is on my list, and I’m training now. Doesn’t hurt that Fall is my favorite running season – air is crisp and the scenery is gorgeous.
Start volunteering again.
There is a lot of travel on my life list. I’m planning a trip to take my kids to Italy in the spring. I love watching them discover new things!
Previously: Take the kids to Disney!
Updated: Take the kids to Disney with Grammy before her chemo becomes debilitating (we’re going in November – yay!)
Awesome giveaway!
On my life list is to travel to the La Tomatina festival: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatina
I am finally feeling like I should create my Life List and start living again.
On life list: compile all goal lists in one place so as to actually do the things on them! Learn how to olympic weight lift. I see tiny girls in the gym doing it – they are such an inspiration. Maybe those Tiek shoes would help me do it?
I’ve had a “life list” since I was fifteen years old (I’m now in my forties). Every time I’ve crossed something off my list, I’ve added a new goal, and I must say . . . it’s made for a very interesting life so far. This past October I finally crossed off “take my sister on a girls-only trip somewhere fabulous” and it was better than I could have ever hoped. She survived her first transAtlantic flight (something she was very nervous about) and I survived the stress of planning the entire trip. We spent ten days exploring Rome, driving around Tuscany and having the time of our lives. We had been wanting to do this for the last ten years and now I just can’t wait to do it again. Next up: in two weeks she’s flying out to visit me here in California and we’re driving up to the Russian River Valley to go wine tasting and hiking in the redwoods.
Recent addition to the list: take more photos (particularly of me & M). There should be some documentation of the adventures and fun were having during this wild time in our life together.
What a nice giveaway – thanks! My life list includes things like write a cookbook, get into crow pose for more than three seconds at a time and live in the Mission Mountains in a yurt for a year…
This giveaway is spectacular. Thank you (and Helen Jane and Laura) so much!
I am checking a few things off my list this month:
Swing Dance lessons!
Apple picking and making a pie!
A sisters (there’s 3 of us) weekend!
All of this is happening next week – I am beyond thrilled.
Cheers!
I’m about to embark on life list item “major house renovation project,” which translates to, “rip out the finished parts of the basement, which were done without a permit and also poorly, and re-finish the basement, including adding a bathroom.”
One day I’d like to live at the beach. I’ve actually started to develop a plan to make this happen (even though it will take years to get there).
I’ve recently crossed a couple accidentals off my list… feel an earthquake and win a raffle.
Working on the life list item: try to stop interrupting…it’s HARD, y’all! Thanks for the nice giveaway
On my life list: go to Paris with my husband
Thanks for the chance to win!
Own a dog!
To have a convertible, to knit a sweater, to keep my house clean for more than 2 consecutive days, daily yoga & meditation.
I’ve just started taking swimming lessons again.
Learn (and then practice) composting!
On my life list is to actually win something cool some day. Here’s to making progress!
Checking one off tomorrow–going apple picking in upstate NY.
I just wrote my life list! Most items are travel related, but the big one, and the one I think I can cross off soonest, is living in a foreign country for a year.
I often say I would like to eat and drink my way around the world. I saw in the NYT over the weekend that there are classes all over Europe about how to make croissants and how to preserve charcuterie meats… I think someday I need to do those things. So I am putting all of this on my life list.
See Tom Waits in concert
Learn to play the spoons; learn to wolf whistle; sail myself around the Aegean. Do all three at the same time.
Travel to Africa! It’s in my 5-yr plan.
I don’t have a definitive life list, but one of my dreams is to swim in a phosphorescent ocean!
I can’t wait to bike with my daughter across Europe. Oh yeah, hubby can come too! :^p
A big item on my life list is something many people take for granted – I want to travel internationally and I never have. But thanks to a new job I just started, I’ll be checking that off in January! I filled out my passport application today.
On my life list: create a business doing work that I love, so that I can teach my kids to be free
Learn how to play the drums! Always wanted to do that.
I’m working to visit each of the lower 48 states with my boys before they graduate from high school (they’re 9 and 10). When they graduate, their gift will be a trip to Alaska, then a trip to Hawaii.
Move my whole family – kids included – abroad for two years, preferably so somewhere non-English speaking.
I’ll quit this job (that I hate) and get myself into a much better job (that I love, or that at least doesn’t make me want to prod my boss with pointy objects).
I want to travel around India and be there for Holi so I can toss around all those beautifully coloured powders.
The last thing I crossed off my list was a swim in the biobay in PR – so cool! (Also cool – convincing 6 women that this was a valid activity for a bachelorette party [not mine]).
Run a marathon. I’ve checked off a half marathon, and now my sights are set on 26.2 miles…
I want to travel! My goal is to buy my ticket to Europe by the end of the year.
This fall, I am applying to doctoral programs, which is something I’ve considered for years but never really thought I could do. Now that I have a young son and my husband is finishing nursing school, it seems the timing is right! I’m terrified, but moving forward
I’m going to buy some land in the Texas Hill Country and build my dream studio right in the middle of it.
I agree about imteresting-looking girls and their good jewelry. I love it, myself.
Love this giveaway!
I want to be a local rapper with one hit that makes it mainstream. I want to develop one game indie or better that grabs the attention of a hundred thousand gamers for a little while. Lastly, I’d like to run my own company and it really doesn’t matter the details of that company for now.
Those are my nigh impossible bucket list boxes.
One thing on my life list is to attend Mighty Summit.
Another thing I’m working on now is taking a dance class. I’ve been searching for a school around me that will be a good fit.
Take A family camping trip. Roughing it, sleeping on the ground, cooking outside…I can’t wait.
Just quit my soul sucking job to sell handmade books! Life list is powerful, yo!
I’m going to make soap. From scratch.
Thanks for always offering these treats! The life list goal I am working on is to travel to all 50 states. I’m currently on a trip visiting 31, 32 and 33.
My life list right now revolves around getting my family finances back in order. This has been a very tough year for us and we need to rebuild our nest egg.
I crossed ‘Start a vegetable garden’ off my list this summer; am loving watching my little patch of goodness grow!
A happy dream I have on my list: Attend the Kentucky Derby one day. Of course, I’ll wear pick out and be sporting a fancy new hat for the occasion.
Thanks for making me revisit my list. I realized that I haven’t accomplished anything on it since January 2011! So I am going to learn to french braid this weekend.
One thing on my list – I would love to travel to Montana and explore the wilderness.
Striking pieces! Fingers crossed.
learn to drive by the time I’m 40. I’m 39 now. Must get over the anxiety!!
Run a marathon. Or even just a half!
To learn to sew my own clothes
What a fantastic gift bag! So jealous I couldn’t make it to the Mighty Summit!
i’m still working on my life list – such a fun exercise!
I want to see the Northern Lights. Looks like I missed an awesome chance last week!
Send one hand-written correspondence (letter, thank you card, greeting card) per month.
Also, hurrah for contests open to Canadians. Thanks.
Trek the Annapurna circuit.
One of the dreams on my life list is to visit Peru and Machu Picchu and I’m pretty sure I would rock the hell out of those flats in Peru!
i’d like to learn to sew and reupholster furniture.
On my life list for this year is to eat at a Michelin Star restaurant.
Growing veggies is on my list. Also, I have that book on my wishlist on amazon.-
I will absolutely positively finish writing that mystery novel that’s been on the shelf for far too long!
Travel to Tuva in southern Siberia and pay homage to Richard Feynman
This is the best giveaway I’ve seen in ages! My latest Life List addition is: Make a timpano! It’s an elaborate italian pastry full of pasta, salame, cheese, eggs and LOVE. Maybe for the holidays!
Run for office!
Climb Half Dome before I can’t do it!
Learn to knit socks
Write more
Exercize more
I will write my life list!
Seriously, I only have a few things on there right now, and I’ve been meaning to sit down and add to it for a while. I keep doing things that I realized would have been on the list if I had taken that time (like taking trapeze lessons).
One item that IS on my short little list is to learn how to perform a Japanese tea ceremony.
Continue living one day at a time….
I’d be so happy if I won, it might just inspire me to come up with a life list!!
Road trip across a foreign country with my sisters.
Simplify! I want less choices in my closet, less stuff in my garage that I will never use, and thus more time for the good stuff.
Plan a 3 week trip (not vacation)and take it in the next year. Perhaps the silver back gorillas in Rwanda…
want, want, WANT! all those beautiful and useful things. pretty please.
I’m removing the word “hate” from my vocabulary.
Checked off the list this year: Belly dancing classes.
Added to the life list this year: Cello lessons
Yay for lists!!
ohhhhh, I think I love everything that you have included for the giveaway! Hope I am a lucky winner. One of my life goals is to travel through Europe. I will get there someday!
Right now the thing I’m working on from my life list is learning how to cook… It’s been a struggle seeing as it’s not exactly my favorite thing to do, but I’m trying!
I know this is going to sound totally sycophantic, but having a drink with Maggie Mason is totally on my list.
Also on my list: take my family and live abroad for a year (or more).
Love your spirit of giving..ness. Thank you for offering these items. I covet the bamboo necklace, but I think the book would be more enriching to my life.
I am going to get my drivers license before I am 35 (this December).
Learn French — and use it!
My life list includes swimming with sharks in the wild (and preferably not dying and having it be the last thing accomplished on my life list).
on my life list: attend a mighty summit some day!
Owning a house. I know, compared with others, I seem so mundane but this is a life goal for me.
I’m determined to find a better job this year and go back to school.
I just booked my flights for a trip to the UK next spring. So excited!
Streamline, simplify, donate and move to closer to family.
I want to visit New York City in the fall and splash in the crisp colored leaves in Central Park! My 30th birthday is next year, so I am planning a girls trip to New York October next year to cross this one off my list and commemorate my twenties!!!
Next on the list: revamp garage for some quality creative space.
Take my mom and daughter to Paris is high on my life list.
Also, to attend a Mighty Summit is also on the list.
Thanks for encouraging all of us to have life lists.
Those things. I want them all! So many awesome items… you rock, Maggie!
My husband has been very supportive of my Life List and always tries to work in creative ways to cross things off it when we’re traveling.
In two weeks I’m taking myself on a trip by myself – to see the amazing graffiti and architecture in Montreal, to Niagra Falls, and to simply spend a few days relaxing away from work. Three life list items in one fell swoop!
You’re pretty great at putting together gift bags – no one getting any of these lovely and useful things would have to feign excitement.
This probably sounds silly, but item numero uno on my life list is to make a life list. Item #2 is to do one thing on my life list. So if I actually make a life list, I’ll have 2 things done right off the bat. I chose those two things to be #1 and #2 because I’m really bad at wanting to do things but never getting around to planning them, let alone doing them. So they’re kind of like my little commitment to myself that, hey, we’re doing this, yo.
I want to visit Ireland and see where my ancestors are from. Also, learn how to cook a whole fish.
Take accordion lessons! My goal is to start after the new year.
The item on my life list that I’m currently working the most on is to run a 5K in under 28 minutes.
Make my own curtains and actually want to hang them after. I saw the material the other day. Hooray for fall projects! I really hope I win!
What fun! I really covet those shoes!
Tops on my life list:
*Skydive for my 50th birthday
*Make my daughter’s dream of going to Africa possible
*Learn to tap dance and/or clogging
*Live abroad with my husband, preferably Italy or Spain
*Go back to the cabin in Idaho where I grew up and walk trail through the woods again.
*Have my own horse someday.
its’ a bit embarrassing, I’d like to get a stamp in my passport. Getting a passport was on my list. So at least there is general progress. woot.
One of my biggest life list items: host a house concert for Cowboy Mouth.
Well I am crossing another item off my Life List next weekend when I go skydiving! Equal parts thrilled and scaaared!
I wrote a life list in 2006 then promptly forgot about it. I re-visited it while packing up my apartment to move, and realized that the biggest things on the list (getting my university degree, learning to scuba dive, traveling with my husband, and beginning a career in a field that I love) have been crossed out and then some.
The last five years have been a time of incredible growth for me, and Mighty Girl has inspired me along the way. Just think how much more I could accomplish if I were *intentional* about my life list! Thanks, Maggie, for being so awesome.
Life List Item #3: Swing or jive dance with a man I care about. (But I probably need to do Item #2 (Learn to dance. Swing. Jive. Two-step. or Ballet) first. That’s a twofer!
Your giveaways are always the best, Miss Maggie.
My Life list includes Photograph a friend’s wedding- which I am going to cross off tomorrow! I am SO excited!! It’s so much more personal when it’s close friends.
Spend autumn in New Zealand, which it looks like I’ll get to do early next year for a belated honeymoon. (We’re taking “Cuddle Class” on Air New Zealand just to be extra-shmoopy.)
Gosh its hard to pick which thing on my life list, but I think I’ll go with ‘hike part of the appalachian trail’ – that’s meant to be multiple days in a row, but not the whole thing. I just think going into nature for a few solid days and pushing yourself physically is something I could use to help me mentally and physically.
I made a “30 before 30″ list last year and successfully removed “lose 80 lbs” this year! I still have skydiving, teach my son to read (he’s only 3) and learn to sew that I need to accomplish before June 20th 2012!
On the list:
-Travel to see the Hermitage in St. Petersburg
-Take my kid to see kangaroos
-Write a children’s book
-Invent a new flavour of ice cream
One of my goals is to visit the ICEHOTEL in Sweden.
Umm my comment above has the wrong email address attached to it….I’m NOT trying to enter twice.
Start my own organizing/archiving business. I started working on it this week.
Sarah Brown, if I win I’ll give you the necklace.
On my Life List:
Master the art of the layer cake
(This is an awesome tote full of goodies!)
First thing on my list is to figure out what my list is. I start thinking of things like—be a cowboy, move to Italy for six months, master another language, train dogs to jump through hoops, learn to sew—and while some are doable, it seems so daunting I give up before I start.
I LOVE the fold-able shoes. GENIUS.
I crossed something off of my life list recently: I went shotgun shooting and hit 2 clay pigeons! 2! That would be more than 0, which was the number I was expecting!
I want to learn to paddleboard. I wish I had done it when the weather was warm. Maybe on my caribbean cruise in January.
My life list has “See a Therapist” on it—- and I’m warming up to the idea every day.
I want to kiss my honey in the Space Needle!
On my list: write a book. Knit a scarf. Find the perfect (for me) red lipstick.
Make a life list to post on my blog (1st item on my life list =)
Wow, what a great collection of goodies!
On the life list:
-Create an oral history.
-Learn to swear in seven languages.
-Attend the Last Night of the Proms.
And thanks for the whole Life List idea in general. Mine has been great fun to create and work through.
visiting norway with my husband — which will be accomplished due being laid off unexpectedly, and then equally surprising — finding a job quickly and still capturing an extra month of salary!
My entire life, I’ve been promising myself I’d to go Holland and see the places my grandparents grew up. I finally did it, and took my baby boy along. My grandmother cried when she saw pictures of her great grandson in front of the house she was born in.
Having my grandmother teach me to quilt.
My current project is training to run my first 5K! (Time/Speed are not part of the goal– just doing it!)
LL: Write thank you notes.
On my life list for the coming year: start my own business. Thanks for the constant inspiration.
Well, after a looooooooong lapse, I finally checked another thing off my Life List recently. Visit Seattle. It was lovely.
Learn how to waltz.
On my life list: learn to drive a stick shift, hike the Italian Alps, write a book, make a film, rent that cottage on the Cape nestled in the dunes with a panoramic view of the ocean.
Machu Picchu and milking a cow…maybe I’ll cross one off the list this year!
Learn to swim properly.
You’re right – the jewelry *is* amazing! And yay, thank you for opening the contest to Canadians as well!
Visit Venice with the Hubs.
That is an amazing giveaway full of fun!! I’d loooove to win!!
My list includes the item of sewing a garment I can be proud to wear. I started an online class a few weeks ago. While I am many projects away from making clothing, I have started and am enjoying the process of learning all the skills. I hope to have a lovely shirt by the summer.
A gorgeous collection!
One thing on my Life List is to learn more about wine. I picked up Naked Wine last night, and even two chapters I’m realizing how much there is to learn. I love it!
oh wow. as always, a wonderful set of things!
since it’s baseball season still (barely).. one of the life list items i can’t stop thinking about is visiting all major league ballparks. it’ll have to be a long term goal but… i really need to make it happen.
I need to get back to my life list. I had put it off, I hope to be crossing off a few things by the end of the year!
I am mightily inspired!
“Learn Spanish” is on my Life List, and I’m easing into it by doing a couple things: 1) exchanging pleasantries with a native Spanish speaking coworker, 2) watching Spanish language channels, and 3) listening to Coffee Break Espanol while cleaning. I’m sure it’d be hilarious to observe. Adios! Love all the goodies!
A hot air balloon ride had been on my life list since I was a little girl. IN the last couple of years I crossed off Dinner at The French Laundry and am working on tasting as many wines as possible!
On my life list? To build a garden. A beautiful, outdoor-room type garden with herbs, a firepit, and beautiful lanterns. Someday!
This year we had a baby, sold our house and moved back to So. Cal….I’d love to win something to commemorate this, but having family nearby is a nice consolation prize.
Quit my job and sell my art.
Want. All of it.
I would like to someday live in the Middle East and get really really good at Arabic.
Kentucky Derby, hat on head, mint julep in hand
Just made my lifelist (thanks to Mondo Beyondo!) Coincidentally, “Attend a Mighty Event” is on my lifelist!
as a freelance writer and artist, i need to establish a professional website and begin the scary journey of self-promotion (at least a decade late)!
I hope to attend the Mighty Summit someday. It looks so awesome!
One of the items on my life list is to run a 5K. Not walk it, or kind of jog in: RUN. I am doing the couch to 5K program right now and am hoping that I can achieve this goal someday!
I want to travel more internationally, and had a dream last night about returning to Majorca, so Learn to speak Spanish (Apender a hablar español!) just moved to the top of my list.
Two of my goals are musical:
finally learn how to play that guitar my husband bought for me
sing in front of a crowd
I want to go to Vietnam and Thailand.
Train to be a professional stage manager.
I so love everything in this bag and hopefully I’ll be the random one picked.
My life list – I would like find involving interior design or staging, and travel to each of the continents!
A fairly general answer, but I’d like to travel more: France, Germany, Prague, Iceland, Alaska, etc. etc. I’d also love to live abroad for a few months to a year.
Currently I’m working on ‘Donate $10 every 10 days’ off of my Mighty Life List. This year I can also cross off ‘Travel to India’ and ‘Overcome my fear of pregnancy/labor.’ Now that I have that baby in my arms, he’s inspiring new items to add to my Life List every day!
Awesome giveaway!!
#1 on my life list is to win this giveaway. he he.
Truthfully, my #1 life list item is to see my husband quit his day job, so he can pursue his art career. We are saving every single penny we can to get to a point where we can quit the 9-5 and paint full time.
draw a book
I’m hoping I’ll win but I’m probably going to share the prize with a couple of girlfriends over a girl’s night out!
Grow my hair down to my butt and then dye it purple!
Currently working on my goal of running a full marathon! 26.2 May 6 in Pittsburgh.
Have a real photography show of my work.
Go ice skating at Rockefeller center
I am so glad that I discovered your blog- it’s been a total life changer. I’ve been hard at work on my life list and would love to attend an event some day. Thanks for being so inspiring! A goal on my life list has been to ride an elephant in Thailand or India. I am going in January! Can’t wait!
LIfe list: travel to Denmark with my mom.
I am already reading the Happiness Project. Yay!
#lifelist
I want to improve my Spanish! My challenge will be to learn more and remember the many things I’ve forgotten from lack of use…
Learn Italian. Go to Italy. Eat everything .
I want my own radio show.
One that I’ll get to check off this weekend:
Take my boys to see the Blue Angels.
Go back to live in France again…this time take husband and baby and stay for at least a year!
I want to get a driver’s license! It really shouldn’t be that hard!
One of my life goals is to live in a different city. I know it won’t happen for a while, so I’m taking advantage of the interim time to see everything my home city has to offer.
On my list: Take my kids to see how different parts of the country and world live. Volunteer with them. Show them that giving back is not only beneficial to others but to themselves.
I want to get my blackbelt. I’m only on yellow, so I have a ways to go.
I am hoping to cross one thing off my life list tomorrow. I have “throw a beautiful baby shower for someone I love” on my list and tomorrow I get that opportunity.
I want to read read great children’s books to my kids before they are too old to listen to me read (We’re working our way through the Roald Dahl collection now).
On my life list: Embrace the imperfection in my life and stop trying to be perfect. It’s been tough but it’s making me more relaxed and happier.
I want to develop a writing workshop for teens. I’ve been teaching post-secondary for years, but I’ve always been terrified of working with teenagers (even though I have one of my own!) so this year, I want to conquer that fear and find a way to create a meaningful experience for teens through creative approaches to writing!
I *JUST* started my life list a couple weeks ago in Karen’s chookooloonks Pathfinder class!
list list items:
- attend the redhead festival in Amsterdam (with several redheaded friends)
-Sleep in a yurt (preferably in mongolia)
-Try 150 new beers and see 100 new bands
oh my gosh and the list goes on. and on. and on.
I took skydiving off my life list for now, maybe when my small children are grown and independent I will put it back on. I think it is amazing how 5 years and the birth of two daughters changed my list…
Top on my life list: finish illustrating the childrens book I started working on three years ago!
On the list this year: have a baby. At 40!
I want to learn to knit…
I want to open my own arts and crafts and handicrafts store one day.
On my life list is a tour of ancient sites in Scotland (that fact that it would mean I might be immersed in the accent for a couple of weeks is a very pleasant side-effect). I’m working hard on this one!
I’m not so comfortable in large bodies of water, so I have quite a few Life List items that will be triumphant cross-offs. One is swimming with manta rays, and I get my chance in 3 weeks!
Hot Air Balloon Ride!
Life List: Have a baby, take cooking classes in Thailand. Maybe not in that order……
Short life list, Long goals, eh!?
Starting my life list now. Live in France with my husband.
I wish it were more world-changing, but nope: my big goal right now is to some day make perfect macarons at home. And to own that gold necklace.
My Life List is still a work in progress… I need to add more things that don’t cost money (ride the Orient Express doesn’t seem so possible when I just bounced a check), so suggestions are welcome!
I’ve wanted to learn to cross stitch and knit forever. Also, to open a champagne bottle with a knife. And to make a proper life list. That’s probably first on my list.
I’m seeing Dolly Parton in concert tonight. This is the very first item I get to cross off my life list!
My feet are cold right now, and #56 on my list is Learn to darn socks, so I think I need to buy myself a darning egg and get to work. I have lots of handknit socks waiting to be repaired and I want to wear them!
In looking over my life list, I realized I’ve done two in the last few months without thinking about them – I had non-cheesy family portraits taken and took my son to Children’s Fairyland in Oakland. Now for the rest…
On my list: Add 5 delicous good and yummy (and easy) Go To dinners to my list of recipes to make my family, Brining the total to 10.
And attend an amazing photography workshop.
Something I want to do – Hot Air Balloon Ride
Something I’ve done – Wrote a novel
On my life list… travel to Egypt. It’s been on my list since I was nine years old, and it seemed a lot less scary back then.
Now that’s some amazing swag! This event looks wonderful.
One item on life list: learn to sew.
Audition for some probably-awful community theater play – it’s on the list but the idea just scares the shBLEEPt out me! Want those necklaces.
Run a half marathon.
AIDS Ride! I want to ride my bike 545 miles, and would love some cute shoes for along the way.
Sing a song out loud, in public, well.
I’m working on a major life list item – become a mom. I’m seven months pregnant, so almost there! I think my next easier to tackle item will be to make an apple pie with a homemade flakey pie crust.
I would like to travel to a different foreign country every year for the rest of my life! Nothing teaches you more or takes you out of your comfort zone than traveling to someplace where you don’t know the language
Occupy Wall Street: That’s on my list.
Drive the entire length Pacific Coast Highway.
I love everything in here.
Climb a 14er was on the list – but I busted that one out (plus two additional 14ers) a few weeks ago. So check plus for that. However, now I’ve added “climb all 54 Colorado 14ers” to the list. Not bad for a girl who would couldn’t cross a parking lot 5 years ago.
This year I’m crossing off “kick-ass Halloween costume” from my list!
What an awesome set of stuff! You do good, Maggie
I moved to my dream city (Portland, OR), so I can cross that off! Now my BIG life list item is to open my own business. Lots of little steps required to accomplish this, but I will get there eventually!
I would like to travel to Germany. I’ve wanted to go since I was a little girl.
On my list: turn my dissertation into a book.
Crossing off items from the life list I didn’t even know I had!
One thing on my list – Learn to tie the perfect bow on a gift.
On my life list: Go to an amazing spa and get covered in mud and soaked in delicious oils. (Hey, I haven’t done it yet and it sounds like fun!)
My husband and I went to Alaska for our honeymoon 16 years ago. It is on our family life list to go back…this time with our 3 children ages 11, 9, and 7. Hopefully within the next 2 years.
Thanks for the chance…I truly love and would use everything included! Next on my life list…Halloween decorations the neighbors covet!
Visit all the continents…including Antarctica. Just like my grandpa did (who passed away last month, at the ripe old age of 91, having traveled consistently for nearly half his life).
my daughter just turned one. she’s part of my list.
ride in a hot air balloon
number 1 on my life list is to see the aurora borealis. i cannot wait!
My life list includes having a third child and traveling more!
One item on my life list is visiting Moscow.
To buy a cool looking car and travel around the United States with my husband.
Ooooh, nice stuff!! I just accidentally crossed something off my life list- “Arrive somewhere overdressed.” I’m so casual I didn’t think it was possible, until I accidentally did it. Go me?
I have crossed off some things from my list: run a marathon, get published. But there are still some big-ticket items awaiting my attention: finish my book and learn to play the accordion!
I want to run a marathon. Last year my goal was a 5K a 10K and to look into a 10 miler. I ran a 5K and a 10K and then signed up for a half and did it! It was so much fun and so nice to have a regimented training program for just me. I made it work with childcare and our schedule and even though it was really hard for me, I did it. I cannot imagine how hard it will be to do the same for twice the distance, but I want to do it. It give me chills even to officially announce it!
I want to see Cirque du Soleil
Go to Opening Day at Nationals Park.
Vorrei andare in Italia–a Roma!
I’m already learning Italian, so Rome this summer would mean TWO life list items for the price of one. Well, not really. It would mean two things for the price of hundreds upon hundreds of dollars, but let’s not focus on that.
I am going to plan my wedding without freaking out! Seriously though, I am going to push myself for a promotion at work and take more time to be crafty at home!
Both my daughter (22 years old) and I have learned to knit.
Plan family commitment ceremony after 4th – and final – adoption is finalized.
I saw when you first posted those flats… and I’ve been coveting them ever since! Unfortunately though, they don’t really fit into a student’s budget, since $135 can buy a lot of groceries.
The good news? I get to cross off “Finish college… with honors” off my lifelist this spring. So even if I don’t win, maybe I will finally be able to afford those shoes on my own.
Oh, wear a size 8. Most definitely.
Travel to Ireland and kiss the Blarney Stone.
I would like to run a 5k in the next year. It doesn’t sound like much but for me running at all is a feat.
On my life list — Getting involved in humanitarian aid to bring technology and greater access to it, to Cuba.
One day, I will dance in a flash mob.
I have two goals that I would like to complete soon. The first is to learn how to refinish furniture. I have an old bureau and nightstand that I’d love to do something with…anything! The second goal is to run a half marathon…and I’ve just registered for one in CA in the spring!
Life List Goal PRIORITY this coming year: Publish a movie, music, or restaurant review in my city’s local magazine or weekly.
Life list item: to make some extra cash through photography.
To slow down and enjoy a small moment more often.
Travel to all 7 continents before I’m 60– 3 down, 4 to go!
Travel to Japan in the winter to see all those gorgeous temples covered in snow.
Yea! Pretty, happy things.
This year I crossed swim in a bio luminescent bay, go to Paris and quit working for The Man and set out on my own off of my Life List. In their place I added figure out what I want to do professionally, live in Paris for 6 months and get married.
Creating a physical family tree is on my list, complete with as many pictures as possible, and I am having a wonderful time putting it together. Thank you, Maggie.
I want to visit the green sand beach on Hawaii. Hoping to make it happen this winter!
My goal for the year is to get to a point where I feel I’m ready to get married, before my boyfriend moves out of state.
My life list is in full swing. I planted veggies and now I’m hoping to hit up the Sutro Bath ruins in San Francisco in the next year!
To do: start my own business – for real.
Still on the List for this year: Quit smoking (again!). I still have time this year to get it done. Not only is it the right thing to do, it will also help me on another List item – SCUBA certification.
#40 on my list is to learn to make (sew) shoes by hand! in the meantime, would love to win the tieks!
The Happiness Project is such a great book. I’m re-reading it right now!
I really wanted to come to the summit. I’ve enjoyed reading all of the posts about it. I want to take a trip with my mother to see lots of art.
Still on the list- Run a 5k. Walked one last weekend. See how much of I can jog this weekend.
Take another vacation that requires my passport and an ocean crossing. *crossing fingers*
I’m loving that tote bag, even if my name’s not Sarah. HA!
One thing on my life list is to do something creative as a way of making a living for me and my family. Like opening a cafe with my friend.
On my list for the coming year: build a raised-bed garden and begin growing my own vegetables!
My life list includes various fitness goals, that 10 months ago I NEVER thought I would be able to fulfill, but now (after lossing over 60 lbs and getting back on my fitness track) I not only KNOW I can fulfill my fitness goals – run a half-marathon, 10k, triathlon, sub-30minute 5k – I am well on my way to making them a reality!
To see the Russian Ballet…..in Russia.
Right now my life list has one singular, short-sighted goal: Finish this damn half-marathon I’m training for without it killing me.
Right now, the only things on my life list are to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and visit Greece. I can’t even come up with a proper Life List!
#42-46 go like this:
Buy a Roliflex and use it,”Enhance” a billboard or public sign, T.P. someone’s house, Read the entire Bible,Fire a gun.
It’s the perfect smattering of good and evil doings.
Item #43: become more crafty/DIY savvy. This year gave me the perfect opportunity when I became pregnant. So far I’ve made curtains, 2 flower garlands, a throw pillow, a pendant lamp and 2 paintings. A year ago I would have spent a fortune and created a cookie cutter nursery but now every single piece has been made with love and the nursery has become my favorite room in my house… Baby Girl is supposed to arrive in the next week or two and I can’t wait to share all my craftiness with her!
One of my goals this year is to take a painting class.
Wow, as I scrolled down the list kept getting better and juicier! If I can’t make it to the Mighty Summit, this is the next best option, for sure! Might inspire me to tackle some more of my life list – that tote would work great on the beach in Australia, wouldn’t it?
I would love these gifts! Thank you for having such amazing giveaways. On my life-list for this year… create a human. Good, no?
I really want to see a glacier before they’re gone.
Learn Spanish! Be a stay at home mom even if it’s just for a short time.
I want to photograph an shipwreck.
keep saving until that trip to southeast asia is booked and planned
I started one of my life list entries this week: tap dance lessons. It’s noisier and even more satisfying that I thought it would be.
Gelato in Italy someday soon…
I am relearning how to play a musical instrument. Practice! I’d love to join a symphony someday!
This year I will: bake a perfect macaron.
Someday soon I will: actually release the albums my two bands have recorded.
Write a novel. Not a genius literary novel (although that’s on the list) but some potboiler bestselling novel that gets made into a movie attended by millions of fans. Also, prompts action figures.
It’s been done, I know. But that means it can be done again!
This year I crossed off ice climbing, next year I want to learn to make pot roast.
I would really like to continue to move towards being debt free. That’s my big life list goal next.
Visiting the tulip fields at Keukenhof.
Taking my boys to Scotland and Wales is definitely on my life list.
I want to fall in love with someone who loves me back.
St. Petersburg, Russia is high on my list- and it is a tantalizing possibility next summer! The bag would sure make a great carry-on…
#6: – Learn sign language and volunteer somewhere that requires me to use it. So far I can spell out my name, and a few other random phrases. It’s a start. I’ll get there
I would really like to live in the woods one day.
This year, I’m working towards making a life list! I’ve been following your blog for a while and have yet to make the commitment to a life list. I have two more months to write down all the ideas that have been floating around in my head.
Get SCUBA certified… its been on my list for years, I’ve been lucky enough to cross some of my items off this year, can’t wait to get to this one!
One item on my life list is to become a professional photographer and one step in that direction is to put together a blog. That’s my goal this month
To learn to make cheese! Also, to make my own wine. Then, never leave my house!
I want to learn Russian.
Sew a piece of clothing for each of my daughters! Maybe I could keep all my sewing supplies (I have none yet) in that great tote!
Thanks for the giveaway! On the list this year: find a career I’m passionate about and travel to Costa Rica. The trip is providing to be far easier than the career!
I would like to finally finish one of the GD sweaters I have been knitting for ages.
i want to save a life!
I love the shoes, the necklace…the…the EVERYTHING!
As for life lists I crossed off get into grad school!! Now I need to work on crossing off graduating and starting a career in a field where I will be helping people!
I have one big list item for this winter – to learn to ski! I have lost a bunch of weight and have built a lot of muscle, so I am ready for the challenge.
Defy the odds and walk again.
Change 100 people’s thoughts on meat.
To run and finish a 100 mile ultra.
I’ve been working on my list for the last month. Two new entries from yesterday: train a therapy cat to take to visit nursing homes; and renovate and decorate a mobile home from all found materials.
Thanks for the opportunities, and all the inspiration, Maggie!
I want to go to the Mighty Summit one year!
Also, live abroad with my family, take photos and write everyday!
I’m working on (re)learning Spanish this year–along with my six-year old son.
Among other things on my list is planning a flash mob surprise for a friend or family member for their birthday.
Please pick me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bounced 3 checks today…it would be so nice to win a little something-something. Thank you Maggie!
xoxo
On my list for this year is to create a collection of old family photos to display in my home. It currently includes several old wedding photos, a picture of my uncle in a band in the 60s, and a picture of my great-grandfather as a baby riding in a cart pulled by a goat!
Go canoe camping on the Wisconsin River some summer.
Go to Greece.
Compost.
Finish my masters.
I took a taiko class. Ended up not being my thing, but I’m glad I tried it!
On my list- see the Santa Maria Novella in Italy. It took my breath away in Art History 18 years ago.
See the Aurora Borealis!
We did a list-worthy thing a month ago and now I need to make that list.
Learn to play the bagpipes!
I just checked off “Make a really good gumbo.” It was REALLY GOOD. Now onto writing thank you cards to my favorite school teachers.
Show my son the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam.
Working on my Life List – almost complete. Who knew I could actually think of 100 things to accomplish that don’t involve work, work, and more work? Thanks for the inspiration!
Life list goal #17 Learn to play the piano.
Get invited to Mighty Summit.
I will finally own up to one of the things I should do: prepare and eat okra. I know I know! Some people gasp at the thought that someone never has eaten okra. Well, that’d be this northerner, and I ought to correct that oversight.
Embark on a (4) day camel safari in Morocco.
I want to finish my PhD.
While I’m new to following your site I am absolutely in love. You are such an inspiration and I really appreciate all the wonderful things you share.
I actually started my life list in my first year of high school, and I’ve been adding to it ever since. The list is now close to one hundred things I plan to accomplish in my life and I’ve since broken it down into more manageable categories.
One of the things at the top of my list is: LEARN HOW TO FIX CARS
I’ve been working on this, I did take a shop class in high school and I’m tinkering with my little rust bucket as things come up. It’s a long process, but somewhere down the road I know I’ll have a girlfriend say “I really need to take my car in to get the spark plugs changed” and I’ll be able to say “Oh! I can do that for you! Bring your car over on Saturday, I’ll take a look and we can go buy the plugs together.”
oh me, me! I had one of those great bags and my mother recently “adopted” it.
Shop for, wrap, and give away gifts at Christmas with my husband and daughter
After closeting my desire for a long time, I’m learning to play the accordion. I bet you can imagine just how hard and fun it will be.
Next up: learn to speak Dutch!
I’m 43 cheeses into my “Try 100 cheeses.” life list item. This is almost purely fun seeing as though I LOVE cheese. But word to the wise: Stay away from the Hooligan. Unless you like the idea of a cheese that tastes like you just licked the unwashed foot of a 15 year old boy who has been wearing his Chucks without socks all summer long.
I am two months away from finishing my Masters Degree. It has been one hell of a ride! Check mark!
Learn to be a better seamstress. Go to Italy with my husband. Skydive again. RV across country. Make babies. The list goes on…
I hope it’s not too late to enter! I checked off several big life list things this last year, and now I’m trying to figure out what to do in the next!
I always get so much inspiration from you, Maggie. I like the way the life list helps one live purposefully, every day.
I want to live for 6 months somewhere that English is not the native language, or a terribly convenient one
I am excitedly starting to work toward “get my Master’s degree” right now – I crossed off my Bachelor’s in May and just thinking about moving forward with my education is getting me all giddy.
I want to hike Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.
Amazing prize! One item that’s really on my radar right now on my life list is to take my business from a level of barely sustaining itself to being able to hire an administrative assistant within one year. That’s my business one. A fun one that scares me a little bit? Sing karaoke in public!
Something on my life list, which I hope to accomplish this summer, is to do an extended volunteer trip to Cambodia.
train for/run a 5k race – i was never one that had to work out until my junior year in hs. i was diagnosed with PCOS – i was told that i may never have kids on my own and i gained weight like it was my job. now, i have two beautiful children, one adopted and one home-grown and i want to be healthy and a good example for them. i think that this will be a step in the right direction for me!
Wow that tote gets better every year (or alternately is consistently awesome
).
Wonderful stuff!
I’m hoping to start a community book club this year, after wishing someone else would start one! These items are all so lovely, how thoughtful of you to share.
Ziplining through the Appalachian Mountains! (and attend a Mighty Summit
Thank you for the give-away!
Learn to knit is one thing on my life list.
take my children on an archaeological dig
Someday I will master one delicious meal that I can make without consulting the recipe.
Land’s End tote bags are amazing!
My life list goal at the moment is to own a 100 year old home.
see an owl in the wild
On my life list:
Visit Macchu Picchu
Someday!
What a give away; I want every single item!
A major life list moment is upon me. I just submitted my application to Sonoma State University. I have attended way more junior colleges than I would like to admit, but I am finally moving on to the next phase. Hooray!
One of my goals is to have an article published in a national magazine.
Love the jewelry in the give away!
Take a cooking class in Italy!
To survive my divorce.
I want to sew a quilt!
Life List Item- Clear out years of clutter with massive yard sale, spend the proceeds extravagantly (or, as extravagantly as you can spend yard sale earnings).
Sale is next weekend… waiting to see what sort of extravagance I arrange. Hoping for at least some impracticality.
Top of my list – a month to myself in Paris.
On my life list: to live somewhere other than California, even if it’s just for a short time. I’d lived here my whole life and want to see another part of the country!
Learn to sew and make lots of pillows.
Love this giveaway. You Mighty Summit peeps sure are generous.
Life List Item #72: Learn how to roll a kayak. It’s been on my list since before I had a list, and then a certain blogger showed me how its done…
Knit a scarf!
Kayak the Napali coast in Kauai! Now I just need to learn how to kayak and get my butt in shape, one day!
Take my daughter to Europe!
On my life list:
Read a steamy romance novel in public. And be all into it.
I’m also working on doing the splits. Both ways.
This is the year!
I want to learn to snowboard this year.
I’d like to live in another country.
Those shoes! Awesome!
I want to take ballet lessons again!
I would say I just crossed something off my life list: speedboating with great friends in the south of France during the middle of a wedding reception, while wearing a formal dress and fascinator AND drinking champagne out of the bottle! Fantastic weekend, and makes me realize why my friend said, when we all dreaded returning to work, “in 40 years you won’t even remember where you worked, but you’ll remember this trip!” Must start on new ideas for the life list!
Visit all national parks in the US
I’d like to go backpacking in New Zealand for two weeks.
Please pick me. I’ve had a not-exactly-banner week, and this would be a major pick-me-up!
I learned how to change a flat tire but I still have “vacation in Greece” as a to-do on my life list!
Adding 5 more things to my life list is my simple goal right now. It’s weird to me that I have a hard time coming up with a few things that would make me happy.
I am definitely going to milk a cow sometime in the next 365 days. Would LOVE the goodies!
I want to go to Australia!!!
something i hope to cross out within the next month is for my hubby and i to go on a cruise!
Run a 5K.
Run a 10K.
One of those is happening in two weeks.
and !!!
For one year, send all my friends and family a birthday card.
The next thing I hope to accomplish on my life list is to have a natural childbirth and successfully breastfeed. I had trouble with both with my 1st child and I am due with the second soon. These are two very important things that I want to accomplish and experience.
I want to learn how to ski this coming winter!
Just one thing on the life list? Tricky. My paintings in a museum, completing a long bike ride like Seattle to Portland, and to be interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
one day, i will travel to nepal.
#1: Enjoy Life!
Finish my manuscript and submit it to five agents.
Totally want those shoes. Also, I think I need a list of five for the year.
This year (eek 3 months left) I WILL make the time to take a photography class!! I’ve realized you have to make time or you will have time!
Beautiful stuff!
The latest three item’s I’ve added to my list: make sausages, host a fiesta, drive a motorbike.
I was able to cross something off my list this summer without planning on it. #25- Help a Stranger.
On a hot summer day a homeless woman, that I often see, approached a friend and I as we were sitting on a bench eating ice cream cones. She wanted money. First, giving someone spare change wouldn’t cross this item off my list. Second, I actually didn’t have any money. I had ridden my bike and brought only a gift card for the ice cream shop. I told the woman this and she asked if I would buy her a cone. I said, “You want an ice cream cone??” Her: “Yeah.” Me: “What flavor?” Her: “Chocolate!!”
If getting someone an ice cream cone isn’t helping, I don’t know what is.
So exciting! My life list is always a work in progress. This fall, I’m finally having a Trash the Dress photo session, after 2 years of marriage.
What an excellent giveaway! I’m so excited to join the comment pool and HOPEFULLY win!
THANK YOU!
Something on MY life list? Having babies.
Oh, wow, these are such beautiful goodies! And they would come in especially handy, too, because travel (to Ohio, Alaska, Minnesota, and Spain, not necessarily in that order) is on my list. I’m very excited about my future adventures crossing the country (and the ocean) and can’t wait to make them happen!
Living in a foreign country for at least a year. I just returned from six weeks in Bali, so I’m a step closer to that goal. Or maybe a step back due to debt. But now I know that I can do it (with my husband and three year old daughter) and I must!
Take a cake decorating class.
Lovely!
I’ve abandoned my list in a busy, overwhelming year, but am going to pull it out and see what to go for next!
YOu have such fabulous taste.
I am going to start a community garden on my street.
Great prizes!
Just hiked Mount Whitney with my dad and sister in one day! Started at 3am and finished at 8pm – Best hiking trip ever!!
drive from the beginning to end of rte 1 along the west coast.
Learn how to quickly deseed a watermelon.
I still need to officially create my life list, but I know that one of the items on the list will be something like “Be the best mom I can be to my now 3 week old daughter.”
I want to learn to ski. I was raised by Los Angelenos who had no clue themselves, and I’ve always been to scared of falling down/breaking a leg/skiing off a cliff to even try. I’ve decided that this is the year!
a handstand! I so desperately want to be able to do a handstand again.
I’m about to have my second child, so right now it feels like my life list on hold – although that necklace could be a good reminder to pick at least 5 things to accomplish throughout the year! Even with an infant that might be doable.
One thing that I can probably work on is to simplify my stuff – get rid of the things that I’m hanging on to just because So-and-So gave them to me/I might use them someday/etc. Now if only I could get my husband to do the same…
Become fluent in German
I wouldn’t mind getting the bag with “Sarah” on it!
Great giveaway!!!
I’ve still got giving birth without drugs on my life list. My first child and I had complications during birth, so I was very glad for the help the hospital could give me, but I’m determined to try, try again!
I wish to see the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an China. I feel an affinity to them that I cannot quite explain.
What a FUN gift bag. I want to build a piece of furniture from scratch.
I LOVE the shoes !
Learning to play the guitar is the life list item that I’m most actively working on at the moment!
Help save a farm
Fingers crossed!
I’ve been resistant to the Life List concept for a while. I think you might be wearing me down because I’m on the verge of writing one!
this time every year i get to add a little summin’summin’ to my life list, which includes reading all of the nobel laureates.
On my Life List is visiting every state.
Thanks, Maggie!
I love this giveaway! I already have “The Happiness Project” and you are the one who inspired me to purchase it. If I got it, I know exactly who I’d give it to.
Just crossed one off- Get a passport!
Next up- Go Somewhere!
Love the life list! Writing it down makes it REAL!
My sister reminded me last week that I made a goal for myself a year ago to own my own company within a year. I’m not there yet, but my Life List won’t let me forget it.
Grow something I can eat. On purpose. That won’t make me sick (no bread mold).
See the Aurora Borealis in person. I must.
This summer, we bought a house and inadvertently crossed off several items from my Life List, namely designing a home office. So, I decided to pick up an item that’s been burning my hands – figuratively.
I’m drawing again, a bit. And it’s like something has come loose in me. Liberating!
This is an awesome prize! I’ve started on my list and have revamped it since, first on my list, live my life as I want to!
To make a kick ass apple pie. And travel with my nuclear family to Australia.
I marked a biggie off my life list – move to a house I love. It’s a killer amount of work, but living in a space that is beautifully designed is so restful.
Be fluent in Spanish!
On my list: go to Thailand.
My favorite thing about when you ask people to list things on their life lists is realizing that while I often feel like my life is pretty boring, I’ve gotten to do a lot of cool things that other people are getting to look forward to. So it also makes me grateful!
Life lift: learn how to yell at my kids in Mandarin. Because they need a tiger-mom.
Pretty!
on the life list: take my boys canoeing!
I’d like to fly all my favorite people in for a fantastic party.
now that my kids are in school full time, i want to find something i love and make it my career!
Write a play.
Have one of my international travel photos published in National Geographic!
I’m going to do a 1/2 ironman race! *squeee*!!
Inspired by your “Taste 1000 Fruits, Maggie, I decided to “Read 1000 Books.” Started middle of last year, only counting real/chapter books (not picture ones I read to my kids) & I’m almost up to 70 already. I think I’ll have to celebrate when I hit 100! Thank you so much for the inspiration – my Life List, though not up to 100 entries yet, makes me very happy.
I will finish my Mighty Life List! I only have ~15 spots left, but somehow finding the RIGHT things for those spots has been hard. I try to keep in mind that it’s a work in progress.
Oh, and I want to Camp Mighty next year (please have it again!!!)
slowly building out my list of go-to recipes. the process is pretty fun, but knowing I can always make something for dinner is great.
To live abroad – preferably in Italy, specifically in Venice – for a month or more, with my kiddo and husband.
An item on my Life List is to open my own ceramic studio. I took a baby step this week by launching my first etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/honeyspyhandmade/
eep!
My goal is to finish the darn list already–it’s been languishing. Argh.
i need those shoooooeeesss.
Make my own cheese!
One of my life list goals yet to accomplish: Live in a house with a tire swing. One I’ve just checked off: Grow strawberries. And I think win a blog giveaway is on there somewhere?
i’m working on getting back to marathoning post knee surgery.
I will be achieving two of my life list goals this summer- traveling on Route 66 and seeing the Grand Canyon!
I’m working on planning a trip to hike the Amazon with my best friend of 23 years.
i want to study emily dickinson this year. read many poems- revisit her home- visit harvard’s collection of her life.
Life List- Get rid of the horrible feelings I harbor about my recent ex-husband. They’re not helping anyone- it will help me to be rid of the feelings.
I wrote up a life list a long time ago but haven’t paid any attention to it in ages. Reading your recent posts have inspired me to pick it back up again. Thanks!
Lovely goodies! Who doesn’t love a good tote?
Two faves: do the splits again, and fly a helicopter.
(might change the latter to fly IN a helicopter to increase the change of checking it off)
Hike in Nepal! Climb to Machu Picchu!
I want to write and illustrate a children’s book. I am promising myself that it will be finished by this time next year!
Learning how to snowboard is on my life list – just crossed off learning how to surf!
Next year I want to run a half marathon. I also loooove the Dahlia necklace
I’m working on being good at what I do. Reading about. Working at it with someone else. Asking for help, so I can be good and comfortable with my skills.
Honestly, I need to update mine. I think the last time I even looked at it (…a lot of the stuff on there is, for better or worse, memorized) was about a year ago, if that.
So much has changed, but I’m still the same person and I can’t really tell if that’s a good thing or not.
To do – make a life list!
One thing on my life list is to throw a fabulous surprise party for someone who needs a surprise.
Someday I will bring my children to the village where I grew up in Ireland.
My life list has only 25 things on it so far. I need inspiration! Thanks for having a nice giveaway — even if I don’t win, it was beautiful to behold the lovely things!
I’ve actually checked one thing off on my life list; get a dog. I adopted mr. milo from the spca, about 4 months ago and he is the best decision I ever made.
Next, try Yoga!
I want to walk the Camino… Time to make it happen!
Getting my blog all the way off the ground and post at least once a week…
I’m checking off #23 on my list: Run a Half Marathon on my 23rd birthday (Oct 16!).
I would love to drive up the Pacific Coast Highway.
To attend a game a every baseball park in the US, with my sons would be terrific but alone is ok too.
The very first thing I put on my life list was to travel to Galapagos on a boat…
I will be doing just that in April 2012…SO excited!
Publish a novel
One thing on my life list was to be a mom. I get to cross that off this year! My daughter is coming this Dec. I hope you’re doing well.
To get a novel published by a traditional publisher!
Graduate!
#27: Trapeze lessons on the Santa Monica Pier.
Fearlessly.
To go to Iceland!
We’re about to do it — move into our first house! I am already concerned about busted appliances and leaky basements, but it’s completely worth it!
Start my doctorate!
I’m accomplishing two big Life List items this year: landing a job in an organization that does things I believe i,; and gathering my family from four distant cities all in one place for the first Christmas in many years.
Go, Life List!
My number one son helped me knock one off the list while I was in a daze of grief and worry. He’s awesome. When it’s time to do the Hot Air Balloon life list item, he and I have a date!
Really get my house organized. I don’t know why it’s so scary!
I would genuinely love to own each of the items in your bag! Life list: I want to see Yo-Yo Ma perform live. I think he is a genius!
Oh this bag would be the perfect carry-on! I may just leave it filled with all the goodies to keep me amused on my super long flight to Asia…part of the life list you know! ;D
I would love the flats!
My life list: move to Texas and have football playing boys.
Goal: to get an Airstream, park it by the river, and turn it into a personal writer’s retreat.
Visit to Laos and about 100 other places…
A change in career direction is a big one for me. To work smart and be happy.
Spend a month in China, along with my daughter. Visit the hot pot place in Chongqing and tell her about trying to eat with her in the Ergo.
Last October I spent 5 days on a boat on the Great Barrier Reef – all because I made a list that allowed me to ask. Thanks Maggie
Find a career i love, where i can live up to the saying “find a job you love and you never work a day in your life”
gonna make some tartine bakery croissants from scratch!
I want to stop turning away every time I see a camera.
taking my son to a detroit lions thanksgiving day game is on my life list. i guess that might sound silly to some…but my going to those games is one of my husbands best childhood memories, and i can’t wait to watch them experience it together.
On my life list – own the perfect pair of ballet flats!
On the life list: To sing the national anthem at Cheyenne Frontier Days.
no issue with the bag here either
I want to take my daughter to same summer camp I went to as a child while my husband and I volunteer in the kitchen for a week.
On my life list is to learn and memorize one of the songs of Edith Piaf. It seems so incredibly romantic belt a song out in French!
List list: meet Jessica the hippo. Youtube it. LOVE her.
On my life list: to listen to all 500 of Rolling Stone’s Greatest Albums!
Going to Paris and narrowing in on my dissertation topic are on my list this year!
Learn to play the drums! Whew, fun to just say it and think it!
I’d like to take a cruise through the Panama canal.
The first thing on my list is to truly create a life list. I have been stagnant more or less since I got married 3.5 years ago and had a kid 1.5 years ago. I need to pull myself together!
Move to Chicago.
Live in another country with my kids
Spend an afternoon people-watching at a cafe in Paris.
Life list: learn Italian. Love the necklace.
My life-list includes: stand up on a surf board.
Thanks for inspiring me to create my life list. I just crossed off a big one! Traveling to Greece for two weeks! Amazing. Next I’m planning to cross off a “small” one by segueing around town. Thanks!
To discover the way I’m meant to “give back”. And to act on it quickly – before I have time to second guess my instincts!
I’d love to become conversational in Spanish and then travel around South America.
I want to earn my doctorate!!!
Try something new before the end of each new month!
I hope this counts, this year I completed a triathlon! yay me! Next year I hope to beat my time. And have a great time doing it.
Here’s a few that I hope to accomplish soon
1. learn to take really good pictures of my life
2. make my own ravioli from scratch
3. purchase and wear a great pair of heels
Going to Italy is #1 on my list
Wonderful give-a-way!
Thank you
I will snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef.
I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, and play for my grandfather. (He’s 91).
I’ve always wanted to live overseas (temporarily) with my kids.
I will learn how to bake the perfect pie. And learn how to take good pictures/learn how to use the manual setting on my camera.
Great props for life!
I’m crossing off one item tomorrow: I’m running a 5K. Next on my list? A half-marathon!
On my life list? Be brave!
Top on my list is finding a workout routine (or routines) that I like and will stick with.
On my list … speak fluent Italian, live in Paris for a month, have a dinner party every fortnight, use the word fortnight (done), meet my grandchildren, create a supportive living environment for adults with developmental disabilities … Hey! I’ve been waiting all this time to start my list, and it turns out that the list has been waiting for ME to write it down!
What an awesome giveaway!
One of the things on my list is to read all the Newbery Medal winners. (I’m a children’s librarian.) Two weeks ago I started a blog to write about the ones I’ve read and what I thought about them. (Still too shy to share it here, though.
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This summer I was proud to cross two items off the list: “make homemade ice cream with the kiddos” and “go skinny dipping with my husband.” Both were a blast.
Wow, those shoes seem amazing for travel! I travel a lot internationally and so need comfortable, light, easy shoes. I’m so sick of bringing bandaids for shoe blisters, untying laces at security check points, and needing extra packing room for professional vs walking vs hot-summer-day vs rainy-day vs whatever else shoes.
My life list item: not chicken out and actually join the volunteer team at a women’s crisis center when I’ll be studying/working in Russia this summer.
Also, how snazzy is that bamboo necklace?!
Everything you post is amazing and I want it, but I can actually see myself with the shoes or the necklace (to remind me to really work on my life list).
One life list item of mine: Master the hand stand.
Something on my list that I always say I am going to do and then never do is go on a sleigh ride in the winter on a mountain. This better be the winter!
Just knocked something off my list today. My 10 year old daughter and I came to San Francisco to celebrate her turning 10 this week. We biked over the Golden Gate Bridge. So it was a twofer. Weekend away with my daughter/bike over the Golden Gate bridge. We live in Portland and recently walked over the St. John’s bridge which was designed by the same person. So it was a real treat!
I want to take each of my three nephews on a camping trip.
finally, FINALLY, put down on paper the incredible story of my father’s upbringing in n.korea, escape to s.korea, immigration to the u.s.
I have an “NYC life list” (things I want to do in NYC, where I live) on my desktop, and one of those items is “ride the Roosevelt Island Tram”. (I’m a little scared since I remember a few years ago when it jammed and people were stuck on it for like 8 hours above the East River. Eek!
Life list item that’s going to be checked off soon: making a halloween costume for my very own child. actually I’m making TWO. 20 month old is going to be made into a peacock and itty bitty 6 week old baby is going to be a candy corn. I cannot wait! I hope I can win this fantastic giveaway and check more items off my list soon…
What a crummy week I’ve had. This could only make it sunnier!
Would it be cheating to say what’s on my Life List is to make a Life List? Because that’s where I am right now.
Rescue a dog from a local shelter! I’m visiting on Monday
My husband retired from the Marine Corps after 20 years of service today. One of the top things on my life list is to sit back and be thankful that our kids have gotten to live all over the United States and see the things that other children only learn about in books.
Spain. I simply must go to Spain.
To be able to touch my toes.
Just checked off another on my life list! Started my own laser design & production company (lasercaked.com) and in the first week landed my first client! Thanks for the inspiration…this is so much fun!
I want to be able to do this – http://www.fitsugar.com/Strike-Yoga-Pose-Forearm-Stand-Scorpion-1791397
Peacock Feather Pose
Write a book!
I just added “learn conversational Swedish” to my List!
I love love love those flats!
Item #74 on my life list: Win free swag on the internet.
PS- It’s okay with me if the bag says Sarah!
Convincing my husband that rescuing another dog is in our future
it worked with the second…why not the third?
Remember where I am for a dozen rainbows.
I finished my first marathon two weeks ago. HUGE check on the bucket list. Yay
One of my goals is to move to the Texas Hill Country, live in a cute house, and be happy
My mother crochets the most wonderful hats and sweaters for my daughter. So, in January, I’ve signed up for a Beginners Knitting course — I want to knit something for my mother
On the life list: visit Sicily with my kids to show them where their parents fell in love. My husband should come, too.
To travel more with my family.
to have my own business
DH & I want to travel the U. S. in a motor home when he retires.
Lovely all around. One of my huge goals is to bike the east coast greenway. It’s an incredible challenge, one that I’ll have to seriously work toward.
I want to see the tulips blooming in Amsterdam.
Go back to London UK where I lived for a year with my family.
Take German Lessons. Classes start in a fortnight.
See Liverpool FC play at Anfield!
I want to learn to play 5 songs really well on the guitar.
Next up on my list: hike the Grand Canyon. Hopefully when I go in a couple of weeks, I’ll survive. If I do, I’ll be able to finish that cross-stitch for my mom that will say “I can do hard things”.
Love everything about that bag! I want to play my violin more. And get back in to shape now that I’m done having babies. And I want to edit my closet to include only things that I love and actually wear.
What a fantastic giveaway! Thanks!
I’m ready to add another baby to our crazy life!!
Life list, grow my hair for locks of love.
Go to France and meet my relatives there.
This summer, after months of coaching from the world’s most patient boyfriend, I swam across the pool for the first time. For someone who was has been absolutely terrified of the water since my much older cousins threw me into a lake when I was a small child, this felt kind of like winning the Olympics. Yay, life list!
Spend a summer at a villa in Umbria w/family and friends.
For some reason I have a lot of camps on my list. top of the list I’d to go to camp mighty, then dog scouts of America and then mermaid camp
To learn French.
Beautiful jewelry–I love the five ring necklace, just because there are five of us in our family (actually, both my family of origin and my own family) and it would remind me of the power of five in my life!
Thanks to (current diagnosis) Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, I’ve had to re-think a lot of my Life List this year. In fact, that’s a bit of what I’m spending today doing: it’s Yom Kippur, and I’m reworking some goals and my outlook to be more in line with what I can do right now (very little physical).
My current goal is to be well enough to do the things on my Life List.
I’m currently 21 weeks into my biggest life list project! I have a girl on the way! This is the happiest and the most terrifying time in my life as I’m experiencing a range of out of control emotions. I’m sure every woman who has ever been pregnant can look at me and nod in agreement. Even though I knew it would be a ride, I was totally unprepared emotionally. Yet, I would not trade it for anything.
This is actually kind of two things on my list, which I am working on simultaneously.
One item is that I want to try to sell some of my photography.
Another is that I want to (desperately need to) organize the almost 1Tb of years worth of photography that I have stored on an external drive. You should know that I am not an organized person by nature and for years when I have been downloading my photos to my computer, I would let the computer auto-assign the folder a name based on the date that the photos were downloaded on. Imagine hundreds of folders with no identification other then month-day-year.
So when I found a service that I could use to sell photos from my site without having to go to the hassle of setting up an etsy store, I decided that I wanted to try it.
So I am going through my years and years of photography picking out stuff to try to sell. Which means that I am kind of organizing as I go.
With luck and a lot of work, I will have my photo archive organized and photos up for sale on my site by Halloween.
To try living somewhere else, even if just for a short period of time.
I want to learn to quilt, and make quilts from my kids’ baby clothes. And win this prize!
I want to do the tango on top of a mountain!
I love that necklace!!
Want to win this mighty bad.
Great giveaway! Every item is beautiful, but I could definately use the shoes!
Your site has been an inspiration to me in regards to focusing on self improvement. Thank you…
This coming year I have 5 things I intend to work on. One is to become conversational in French because my husband and I are finally going to France next year.
I’d write. Just write. “The” book I feel’s lurking? I don’t know. I’d just give myself permission to write, and write, and write, and see what comes of it.
I just crossed of a goal on my list! I ate the octopus balls from a street vendor here in Japan during the O-bon festival. They were so delicious!
I want to restore and revitalize some old friendships and learn how to make a really good baguette.
To visit Africa and take a safari. (Also, on less of a grandeur scale: seeing a Jimmy Buffett concert with my brother, for he knows how to do them up grand style!)
I can cross off staying home at least one year with my baby!
My new thing this year is going to be to organize my craft room and host at least one craft night for friends.
First on my life list is to get a tattoo. I have something all picked out, now I’m just working up the courage.
My life list includes running a marathon. One mile at a time.
I love these! Thanks for the giveaway!
Run a 5K, travel to a beach somewhere – just because (haven’t been on a real vacation – no family, no conference – since my honeymoon), get a tattoo.
To feed and pet my favorite animal- giraffes!
Number One on my life list is “Finish making a life list.”
Numbers Two through Ten are all about travel because that’s easiest for me to come up with! Such as: I will travel to Prague.
That dahlia necklace is super lovely.
Like the other Sarah, you can leave my name on the tote! LOL
I’m still trying to get to Paris. Other people seem to be able to get on a plane and go, yet each time I try to plan the trip, something happens and I can’t go. Hopefully next year is it.
On my life list: live somewhere else for a significant period of time. It has always been France. I feel those temporary tattoos will give me the boost I need.
To see Coldplay in concert!
I want to walk the El Camino de Santiago in Spain.
The best part of this giveaway is seeing what is on other people’s life lists! I’ve crossed 5 things off my list this year, including taking banjo lessons.
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One item on my list: Live in a house with a brightly colored front door.
Great giveaway – thank you!
My life list includes:
- get to the point where running for exercise is actually enjoyable
- learn to speak french fluently
- grow my own produce
25. Adopt a greyhound
52. Plant a vegetable garden
88. Learn enough Italian so I can read The Divine Comedy in its original
oh my god i want those tieks.
life list goal? fall in love.
I’m in the midst of huge limbo in my life right now (transatlantic move back to the states with toddler and hubby, living at my mom’s while we try to find a place of our own, not knowing what I’m going to do with my life now…) so perhaps it’s a good idea for me to focus on my nascent life list…one thing is to write the children’s book that’s been knocking around in my head and on the page for the past few years!
Write a book. By which I mean, figure out what to do with all these stories inside of me.
Raise $15,000 to adopt our first baby from Ethiopia!
Wow!! Thanks for the giveaway. Celebrate my 50th anniversary with my husband.
One of my proudest life list accomplishments is running!
Learn to play the piano!
Make soup for my neighbor, Dinah.
I’ve gotten this crazy idea to run a half-marathon. Never run a race in my life…but I want to try. Thanks for the chance to win.
The first thing I would like to cross off my life list is to adopt a baby.
On my life list for the next twelve months: get a dog, and re-learn how to be happy on my own. I know it seems like the first goal negates the second, but they are both really about finding my own bliss.
travel to greece with my husband!
Please..please
I have never won anything or posted on any blog for that matter but I love the shoes. Mighty girl is an awesome site that has helped me focus on what I really want again. I have a life list…but honestly need to look at it more.. Hot air balloon ride is hopefully my next thing. I am a very simple person looking for something that is missing.
Working on my life list!
My fiance and I have been sharing life list items as part of our pre-marital counseling
A life list thing I want to accomplish in the next year is going swimming with turtles. We’re visiting Hawaii, so I hope to get this done! For him, our Hawaii trip means climbing the highest peak in that state — he has a goal to climb the highest peak in every state.
I have been working on my life list for a while, it is so inspiring! One thing I have accomplished lately was to take a pasta making course. It is amazing how delicious homemade pasta tastes! I am converted for life! Next up is learning how to sew from a pattern.
I’d love to win- thanks for the opportunity!
Take a summer-long, cross-country road trip with my husband and kids.
Life List #20: Ride horseback on a beach!
Great giveaway! On my Life List is to visit Truro, England – Truro, Massachusetts has been an amazingly powerful place in my life, and I want to set foot on its namesake!
I want to backpack through Europe.
I have finally made my life list- create a yearly tradition that lasts six years, we are on year FOUR!!
Interview my mother about her family and childhood. This is next to cross off.
Love these giveaway gifts! From the life list: Write about our family history & capture my uncles’tales of adventure from when they were young and hitchhiked across the globe.
Live abroad somewhere for at least a year!
Befriend a squirrel. No seriously. Like in a way that when I come outside, he comes over to see what delicious nutty snack I brought for him today.
Travel to at least 50 countries in the world. I’m currently at 10!
Life list left to do: Learn a foreign language.
On my lifelist: selling something I made on Etsy. Hope to do it this year!
Write a short story, and then let someone else read it.
I’ll confess that I’ve only idly composed a very loose mental Life List in the back of my head, but here’s something from that list that I actually accomplished: move to a city in the US where I know a few folks but get to essentially settle in from scratch and start over (in some ways). I just moved to Boston a couple of weeks ago.
Also, kind of silly, but dating a great guy for the last couple of months, with whom I saw eye to eye on so much…even though we had to break up when I moved, it was a great experience.
That has been an incredible rarity in my life.
Next up, once I settle on an apartment and move in: start living a more natural life, and learn how to cook from scratch.
Gosh. I haven’t looked at my life list in a while, but I feel like learning to knit in the round is something to be accomplished this fall/winter. In other news, I did my own 30 Days of Fun project on my Facebook page, and I will be forever grateful to you for introducing me to it. It changed my life.
Finally finish Couch to 5K!
I want to learn to sew!
Winning would help accomplish two small things from my list: buy myself some awesome shoes, and treat myself to a fab piece of jewelry.
live a life debt free and have the freedom to travel/live abroad with my family.
My last life list item–to be spent. To spend my life for Jesus, loving people. I don’t want to look back when it’s all over and see where I wasted opportunities to be kind or to serve. I want to finish life having lived fully, spent.
For more goals with shorter achivement periods–I want to learn to cook healthfully–before I have kids.
Awesome give away. The bamboo dahlia caught my eye in particular–love dahlias and love bamboo. Anyway, random item from my life list: learn to dance the Argentine tango. Thanks!
I spent my college and early adult years raising a baby and getting an engineering degree, so lots of things on my life list are about expanding horizons. I want to learn to play the piano, speak another language, play golf, ride horses.
One thing on my life list was to put my passport to good use. In January, I’ll be going to India for two weeks – a pretty amazing way to use that passport
Beautiful giveaway, I am always in search for a cute comfy shoe.
Thank you!!
Love the flats! And the bag would be perfect to take along on my life list item of sailing in the Galapagos.
Believe more in myself.
I want to write a book about tips and tricks for making it through the first year of having a baby.
Wow – what a cool giveaway! Hmm…one of my life list things that I crossed off this past year was to finally visit every one of the 50 U.S. states. Hurray for completion! one thing I have yet to do is travel internationally with my kids. That one I hope to check off soon.
One of the things on my list was to run a 5k. I managed that, so I added ‘run a 10k’ and then ‘run a half marathon’… My second half marathon is (eep!) tomorrow, and sooner or later I’m going to be able to cross off ‘run a marathon’ and add ‘run an ultramarathon’. My list seems to have accidentally turned me into a runner…
I want to travel for six months with my husband and our three children. I want to make part of my living by writing.
one thing on my life list that i (oddly) just realized i haven’t done is:
go to the southern hemisphere.
i don’t even care where.
also, dahlias are #1. they are popping up everywhere in portland right now.
Hike the appalachian trail, from end to end!
I have ‘plant 100 trees’ on my life list and this week I planted #8. Anyone need another tree planted in Denver?
You have the best giveaways!
Take a life drawing class.
Great giveaway, thanks!
I want to read all of Shakespeare’s plays.
I rode in an open cockpit, WWII era biplane this morning. And the pilot even let me handle the stick for a bit! In doing so, I discovered that in addition to bowling with a hook, I also FLY that way!!!
i keep thinking I want to make a life list. And I haven’t yet. But if I did, it would have to include hiking the hut-to-hut trails in New Zealand.
My Life List project has brought me fun and taught me to welcome the unknown. I took care of a few big items on the list this past summer —– including one of those things that you can’t plan —– falling in love. I plan to take up knitting again this winter.
I’m knocking 3 of my goals off in the three weeks! I’m getting married (one goal), and my fiance has so completely embraced my list, he’s not only made one of his own, but has planned our honeymoon around a few of my goals. We’re driving the Pacific Coast Highway, including a visit to the Getty Museum.
My life list includes the goal of taking my son Briggs back to Ethiopia where he was born and lived the first year of his life.
I already learned how to blow glass, so now I just need to learn to milk a cow someday.
I would like to spend a month in Vietnam.
I want to be able to carry a conversation in Spanish.
Wonderful giveaway! My nearest “life list” goal is to run a 25K in May… I’ve been pregnant/nursing for 2 of the past 3, so nows my chance!
I want to get into business school this year. Thanks for the giveaway, Maggie!
I’ve been working on a book proposal for three months now. It’s not perfect yet. I would like to mail it anyway.
Bake my grandmothers Angel Food cake!
Yay for giveaways!
I will be heading to O You! in Atlanta next weekend to complete a life list item. I originally wanted to be in the audience of an Oprah show but, like many, was never able to get tickets. So, seeing Ms. Winfrey (and Gail and Lisa Ling and Suze and Nate Berkus) will be my alternative. I can’t wait!
It’s been a dream since I was a child to start a restaurant. Definitely high up on my life list.
Life list: live in London for a month!
I want to teach my children to ride a horse.
Somedays I succeed at being Mighty. Other days I’m only semi-mighty.
Relearn Greek and be able to speak it conversationally so that someday I can take my family to Athens and show them where I studied in college.
On the Life List for this year: Learn how to use my awesome camera.
I would like to take singing lessons so that I can, one day, serenade my husband without destroying his eardrums! What a beautiful giveaway.
I have it on my list to see the complete Wagner Ring Cycle at Bayreuth. This is one of those impossible things you should have on your life list, so if you finish everything else you aren’t bored. It is probably so unlikely that someone like me could ever get tickets and afford to go, and the waiting list is like ten years long, but whoo boy, would it be worth it.
On my list: See the Northern Lights!
Build a patio in our backyard by ourselves.
visit bangkok, hong kong, tokyo (amongst a million other destinations…)
Someday, I will own my own business- and support myself with it!
Have a garden!
Trip with best friend. Nearly impossible to achieve due to conflicting very tight schedules. Booked for 2012. Couldn’t be more tickled.
On my life list is helping my children create their own life lists. I look forward to showing them how their dreams have changed as they have grown up.
I want to finish my bachelor’s degree!
I want to share the gospel.
Love the giveaway. Fingers crossed for a win!
To live in a foreign country for over one year.
I want to swim in every ocean!
Finish and defend my dissertation. Hopefully within the next year and a half.
Still haven’t been to Alcatraz. This year fo sho.
I’ve been crossing stuff off my life list, but one thing Im still working on is doing a parachute jump. I’m terrifed of heights/falling. To me this would symbolize controlling my fears, not letting them control me.
I’ve always wanted to pay for someone behind me in the drivethrough. There….I’m putting it out there.
Buy a really good piece of original artwork.
On my life list: travel abroad alone!
I want to run the Dipsea!
Newest life list goal: win a Mighty Summit gift bag!
to sell my art on a consistent basis
I’m going to own a dog!
One thing I hope to cross of the life list in April – finish my Master’s!
I want to see the Northern Lights!
Creatively visualizing living in France for a month with my boys.
Thanks for all of the inspiration and generosity of spirit! You bring sparkle into all of our lives.
I am just DYING to get my boyfriend out of the country for his first time. I’m hoping we can rub a few pennies together and make it happen sometime in 2012.
Awesome gear/gifts!!!! Life list item #1 enroll in nursing program-meeting with financial aid on tuesday- eeep? I mean eeep!
To learn to dance Argentine Tango really well!
I would love to finish a marathon.
On my life list
Travel to Egypt. Experience, see, live, do real Egyptian bellydance.
Fall in love with myself. People I love and admire think I’m worth loving, so why don’t I give it a try?
Get to the beach for a vacation.
On my list for next year: finish a half marathon.
See my mother more often!
On my life list: travel to Turkey.
Last year, I crossed off “try improvisational comedy” from my Life List. Not only am I still doing improv, but I met my husband-to-be (in one month!) there. So improv has been awesome for my life in all kinds of ways!
On my life list: read the complete works of Shakespeare.
The Dahlia is mine (to the song The Boy Is Mine
I’m in the thick of making a huge change in the way I work and live. Can’t quite cross it off the list yet, but wow. I’m on my way. Hello, entrepreneurship.
I love reading about your and everyone else’s life lists. Things I didn’t even know were possible have popped onto mine! Thanks for so much inspiration and motivation…
I`d love to hike to Machu Picchu.
Travel back to Austria where my husband and I met. .
I’ve had some setbacks this year in reaching goals set for myself, so my new goal is to create a list with simpler, more pleasurable goals! I’ve got to have a minor surgery done on my hand in the next few weeks (haven’t scheduled it) so the rest of the year will be dedicated to recovery and moving forward into a bright, better 2012.
Skydiving!
Make a pair of socks!
Tour Europe!
See every Shakespeare play performed live.
Ride a zipline….
Still need to write the life list, but everytime I read your site, reminds me. It will happen!
when my niece is old enough, take her on an amazing overseas vacation.
It looks like #74 taking my mother to australia, is going to happen next year! Which is exciting.
i recently added “watch all of John Waters’ movies” to my life list.
Maggie, you make me proud to be a woman!
“Own a VW” is one of the items on my life list, and a few weeks ago I bought a VW minivan. That’s not what comes to mind when you think of a VW, but hey — it counts, and we love it.
I’ve always wanted to go swimming with dolphins. The very first time I read what you had written about life lists, it was the first item I put on. It hasn’t happened yet, but one day!
My husband and I both share the dream to visit vietnam. He was brought to America as part of Operation Babylift with hundreds of children who were feeing the country. He was adopted by a wonderful family here but has always deemed of returning. He remember bits and piece of living there as a child. I would love to be a part of the experience of returning to his birthplace.
Swim naked in the ocean.
Get my hair dreadlocked. I made my list about 9 years ago, and I still want to do this, so I just gotta at some point.
lands End totes are the best, they last forever.
My favorite life list item is to teach my 3 year old son all the silly songs that my dad made up when I was little. On the way to school everyday my dad would recite these songs he made up and it is one of my favorite memories of my childhood.
Pack up and spend a summer at the beach.
To dip my feet in the waters of every ocean.
Quit my job and go to grad school!
What a great giveaway! Hoping to win!
my life list for this year:
-live near the ocean
-publish my book
-make birth art
-teach my children love and freedom everyday through my own actions
-work towards what I believe in
Start the novel I’ve been thinking about writing for years.
Love all of these items. I haven’t read my Life List in a while but I decided I would start completing one random act of kindness. Something more than helping a little old lady cross the street but less than paying off someone’s mortgage.
Life list goal #1: Find my daughter’s birth mother.
Life list item I pine for the most: finally, after 10 years together, to take a honeymoon with my love of a love husband. Sub-requirement: babysitter for 4 kids for a week.
I love the necklace symbolizing 5 life list goals. I’m turning 40 next month and plan to cross several items off of my own life list. ~Heather
life list: sing with a band at a bar!
thanks for the giveaway
In progress from my life list right now: use ultimate will power to: stop spending (so much) and pay off student loans, and stop eating (so much) and finally lose the rest of the “baby” weight. . .they’re 5 and 2 now, I can’t really blame it on them anymore.
I didn’t ever add “buy a house” to my list, but now that I am doing it, and I realize what an ordeal it is, I realize I should have!
see the world with my daughter
Run a half marathon is on my list. It’s scheduled for December and I’ve been training since August.
Be profiled in InStyle’s “Her 10 Best Ever” section – I’m not a celebrity and am not sure how this would ever happen, but I dream big!
What a wonderful giveaway!
My life list includes seeing my children fall in love (they’re only 4 and 1 so hopefully that means I’ll live a long time) and moving to New Orleans.
Thanks so much for encouraging all of us with our life lists. It’s great to write these things down this way, as it makes me accountable to myself. Looking at my list just now I realized I’ve done a couple things I can mark off. Whoo hoo!
I’ve decided to use my birthday as an excuse to cross something really fun off the list each year. This year I’m going whale watching.
I love the site and my life list’s only goal is to get my dissertation project accepted.
Life list: Number 1, learn how to be happy so that I can teach my daughter how to be happy.
to wish someone happy birthday in sky writing!
I recently completed a half marathon as part of my life list. Something that will always be on my list is to get to the bottom of my skewed relationship with food. Eat to live, not live to eat. Love the jewelry!
Cook a four-course meal for my closest friends!
I recently started business school as part of my life list. It is completely wonderful and overwhelming. I am all the good kinds of busy.
Go on a whale watching trip to the Gulf of California!
A big one: Start my own business that I’ve been dreaming & planning for years. And, a little one from my list: learn how to use my camera
I just crossed off one of the things on my list I thought improbable – learning how to make phyllo/fillo dough from scratch from a little old lady in the Mediterranean! The lady wasn’t that old, but I learned from a master, and I have you to thank for the idea that we can take these types of wishes and dreams for ourselves seriously.
Learn how to make tortillas.
And play backgammon.
I really want to learn to drive stick. I think it’s a totally great life skill and i’m doing it.
Become fluent in Spanish
It’s not as fancy as skydiving or learning a language but I would like to do something nice for me every day for a whole year. And finally cut the toxic people out of life.
Dahlia’s are my favorite flower too. Having a garden full of them in a house that I own is on my life list
Having been a mom for 12 years now I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much I need to start a list to work on finding me again. 5 goals for this years sounds like a really good idea…
We are moving at the end of this month to a house with my idea of the perfect yard. I plan to grow a real garden and hang white sheets out to dry on the clothesline this year!
I want to learn how to speak Russian well enough to navigate through St. Petersburg.
I am crossing my fingers and toes!
Looks like The Summit was a great time! Currently, my life list consists of only one item: Beat cancer. I’m hoping to add to it soon!
Darn, I hit enter before I was done typing– and I can’t figure out how to delete my last comment! (I don’t mean to be breaking the double-posting rule).
I am crossing my fingers and toes– and one of my life goals is to quit renting and buy a house.
Learn some Japanese & travel to Tokyo.
I love the idea of jewelry that symbolizes something. The quintet necklace is just beautiful.
On the Life List:
Learn how to walk my cat on a leash. Seriously.
Does “own a pair of Tieks” count??
Okay but really: visiting all provinces and territories in Canada. Only 4 left to go but I think Nunavut will be the hardest….!
Travel in Europe on my own. Next up Zurich!
Roadtrip across the US – visiting every state
on my life list – travel to scotland with time to stay and really explore while learning about the places where my family lived.
Learn to a plane. The little ones.
Oh my gosh, this is INCREDIBLE! What a boost for anyone trying to refocus and start a new chapter in life. I’d love to be the one, but send advance congratulations for the lucky gal chosen!
Drive Route 66 and stay in the teepee hotel!
Take a moment of every day for a month to think about how grateful I am for the good things in life (and hope that after doing something for 30 days it becomes second nature.)
I want to become a great cook. I’d love to take lessons but they are never offered in my town. I’m hoping to plan a trip to somewhere fabulous for a week of cooking classes and spa services.. (by myself!!! Which is another life list goal, I’ve never travelled alone)
Write 1 short story a week for a year.
Half Dome – summiting in September 2013!
Newly on my list: to learn to use a sewing machine.
I have managed a 5K the next up is the 10K, then on to the Half Marathon and then the full Marathon.
The biggest thing on my Life List is to graduate with my school counseling masters degree!
Awww, you thought of us! One life list goal this year is a tattoo – first ever at 43!
On my list? Learning to make a perfect risotto!
I still want to be an astronaut.
To have children.
On my life list: Obtain my teaching certificate, learn to speak Spanish fluently, retire in Istanbul and to learn to play Christmas carols on the piano.
Included on my list — write my spiritual memoir, teach overseas for a year in Santiago, Chile and take vacation with my daughter before she is a teenager.
On my life list this year is graduating from graduate school…ahh it’s so close! I can taste it.
On the life list DONE as of last weekend – attended the wonderful Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in SF. Been here 10 years and never went…and it was fabulous! I heard all sorts of new (and old) music and met lovely folks! And it didn’t cost a dime.
On the life list for next year – GO BACK and take many, many more photos and attend an extra day!
Help my Dad write his own life list and encourage him to do everything he wants in life.
My goal: raise two boys to be like their dad.
I know someone also posted this, but travel to Croatia is also on my life list
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I want to write a children’s book with my dog Jennie as the main character.
Road trip with the bestie.
Learn to throw a pot that isn’t lopsided!
I haven’t written a life list yet, but traveling to Europe with our limited budget will definitely be on there!
I will sew something that I will wear frequently.
Ah, I plan on crossing off “steering a tugboat in a captains hat”…so lucky I met a captain of lovely red tugboat thru a friend recently!
I just did something on my Life List this week! I tried Stand up Paddleboarding. Super fun.
Edit and submit my interview with my Romanian grandmother to StoryCorps.
I’m going to learn how to sew so I can make my new baby girl some great Halloween costumes!
I’m working hard on the biggest item on my life list, which is to adopt a child. Wish me luck.
Dropping my name in the hat, er bag
Plunk. Water in the bucket. Here’s hoping the concentric circles bring a prize!?
i’m conquering bread-making this year!
Someday, I’ll attempt either a marathon or an Olympic distance triathlon. I was never athletic as a kid, and I fought my way to my first half marathon last year. It changed my life. I want to keep challenging myself.
I feel like the only way I express myself is by choosing to enjoy other people’s art and I’m tired of it so I’m trying to learn how to draw half-way decently.
feeling genuinely happy has never been so easy. slowly but surely crossing things off the list and loving it.
One of my life goals is to travel from one coast of my country, Canada, to the other. I’ve made it to the west coast, but still need to dip my toes into the Atlantic.
I hadn’t really gotten behind the idea of life lists. I don’t know if they seemed too morbid, or if I was still recovering from the disaster of my 101 in 1001 from years ago, or what. But then I made a 30 Before 30 a few years ago and it kind of changed my life, and then reading about Mighty Summit finally pushed me over the edge. My list is young and still small, but it’s growing. The most recent additions are to visit Giraffe Manor in Kenya and to learn to surf.
The necklaces are gorgeous, and the flats? Love!
my dad has always wanted to go to ireland, and i’ve always wanted to take him there. sadly, he just passed away, so my mission is still to take him, just in a different way than originally intended – to scatter his ashes. i think he’d like that.
My lifelist includes making tamales for the family at christmas, shaving 24 mins off my half marathon time to 2 hours, and opening a gift/cardshop!
Travel to Greece with my best friend.
To go back to school and get my masters!
On the life list: Start riding horses again.
My favorite item on my life list: Take my son (who happens to have bright red hair and was born on St. Patrick’s Day) to Ireland to celebrate his birthday. How fun would that be?!
Ooohhh…I’m working on publishing my Life List right now, and I am having a hard time writing just one thing down! So because it is harvest season in Northwest, Ohio and because I live in farm country I’ll put these two-I want to solve a corn maze without a map and I want to drive a combine (you know, those hulking farm machinery things?!). This city-girl has no clue how to do either thing:)
And this giveaway is so swoon-worthy…thanks for the goods!
The biggest thing on my Life List is to graduate from college. This is the year.
Thanks for making this contest open to Canadians!
On my life list: travel back to the village where I was a Peace Corps volunteer, hopefully with my husband and kids. It’s been nearly 10 years, so I hope to make this dream a reality sometime soon!
Mighty fine, these goodies!
Since writing my life list out a few months ago I’ve already accomplished two goals: run a half marathon and learn to can (peaches!). Next up, learn to surf. It’s amazing how inspiring and empowering writing out your life list can be!
I stumbled upon your life list and the Summit last year when I found your event mention on my High School chum Malie’s blog. Ever since I have followed and have started my own blog and list. the one that I am working towards this year is to start a foundation for children.
On my life list is travel more!! those flats sure would help
I’m going to learn ASL.
on my current life list right now is getting back on pacific time after traveling to taiwan to pick up my new baby girl.
i love the shoes! the tote! the book!
One that’s been on my life list for years: hike the Cinque Terre with my mom. It’s right below “hike the PCT from Mexico to Canada” on the list. Obviously I have a thing for hiking.
That is one delicious goody bag!
My list has been languishing a bit. Or I’ve been approaching it sideways, I don’t know. I’m working on a cabaret show. I’ve been slowly whittling away my 1000 dog portraits (and some cats). I’ve been teaching my dog tricks, too. He’s really easy to teach. Lately, though, I’ve been thinking about things I want to add. Though I’m terrified of heights I’ve been feeling as though I want to ride a zipline. I think I’d like to host a costume party. I think…I want to dream bigger, fancier maybe. I can do that.
I’ve resolved to start blogging/journaling again since my birthday passed last month. Another item on my list is to make an effort once a month to try and get together with one or more of my best girlfriends who live a little farther away.
Next weekend is the kick off to what should be one of many great memories to come! We’re trying new things together.
own a home!
My wife would love this stuff!
On my life list: publish my first novel and write another.
You are so very inspiring!
High on my life list: learn to sew well.
After a year of being stretched to the point of almost breaking, Operation: Simplify is in the planning stages.
One of my goals was to learn to cool french food. I
A professional cook, but self-taught and can’t afford culinary school. About a month ago I sat down with my chef and askedif he’d be willing to do an apprenticeship with me and he said yes. The same day I made my first bearnaise and I had to hold back tears because I was so proud. Thanks for helping all of us look forward to life.
On my life list, to go to greece!
two babies later, my life list is moving slowly but I’ve continued to throw SMASHING birthday parties and hey, having at least one baby was on my list so…I’m making progress.
Oh, that would be a fun thing to win. One of the things on my life list is to finish my BA in anthropology, and finally, this semester is my last. It’s been a long and painful struggle, and I will be so proud to have that diploma in my hand. (I’m only 30, but it feels like it’s taken forever!)
On my life list: Make the perfect bar of soap. Will be working on my recipe soon for Christmas gifts, so making some progress.
My husband and I just started a business which means I am currently in the process of checking off one of my list items!
One my life list: make an anonymous financial contribution to someone’s college education
Love the flats; travel a fair amount for work. Visit Ireland!
I have a banjo that I want to learn how to play.
On my life list: master crochet. My special grandma, age 92, gave me my first lesson, and I would love to make her something in return.
On my life list: grow dahlias from seed. although only two came to life this summer they were as beautiful as ever.
To stop living like a college student and start living like the 34 yr old mother I am.
I want to ride all the record breaking roller coasters in the United States! How deliriously fun!
This is a FUN GIVEAWAY!!!
7 pounds from completing life list item “Lose my baby-weight” (my youngest is 2 years old now — this is a rare accomplishment in my corner of the gene pool!); two that I haven’t begun: “Learn to play the guitar,” and “Go whale watching.”
On my list: Learn to play the accordion.
Run a 5k…
The next thing I do from my list will probably be kayaking in the mangroves in Miami.
Hmmmm…make the mighty list!
Someday I will try a triathlon.
I wrote my life list a few years ago and learning to play bass guitar was one of the first things I put on it. Two weeks ago I FINALLY bought one off Craigslist dirt cheap, and by the end of next year I hope to be able to actually play the thing.
Take my daughter to NYC to see a Broadway play.
As I was making my list I wrote down places all over the world that I want to see. Then it occurred to me that in additional to all of those great places, I should also see everything there is to see in my own backyard – the Colorado Rocky Mountains. I added “Be on top of every mountain pass in Colorado at least once.” Out of 53 passes, I have seen 19 of them. It will take some time to cross this off, but it will make for some beautiful road trips.
I’m working on compiling my Mighty Life List. And when I’m done, I’ll get to work on crossing things off. I love crossing things off of a list. Here’s a sample of my list: Cook my husband a gourmet dinner|Plant an herb garden|Take my daughter to Italy|Learn how to fix my own car|
I’m getting there!
Love all of these items from head to toe!
Life list item: Learn how to play bass guitar
Oh please oh please! Life list: Plan / take a vacation with my best girly friends.
One of the things on my life list is to ride along the hills of italy on the back of a motorcycle
Learn to sail solo.
To make the gifts for my friends and family this next year.
Camping safari on the Masai Mara with my daughters. My husband & & went while I was in Kenya for school & it was an amazing experience. Looking forward to seeing the girls’ faces when they see that lion laying 15 feet away.
I want to take a cake decorating class! Specifically, I really want to learn how to make flowers out of frosting. They’re just so pretty.
Here’s hoping…love the dahlia necklace.
I’m going to run my first 1/2 marathon this year…going from couch potato to runner should be interesting, but I’m finally ready for the challenge!
on my life list – spend the summer traveling to handmade craft fairs, selling my felted critters
Life List goal achieved (or in process): While I still put the “free” in freelancing, I have an editor. An honest-to-goodness-went-to-journalism-school editor who does not also sit in the cubicle next to me and let me blog by default.
Life list goals include taking Hebrew classes so that I can apply to rabbinical school. I took a casual, conversational Hebrew class over the summer, but need to get on it in earnest.
Your blog inspired me to make my own life list. Best thing ever to cross things off the list like going to Atlanta to see whale sharks in person. Would love that gold necklace, so pretty and simple.
I want to make a quilt. A really badass quilt.
Swim in a clear blue water with no fear of sharks.
Get tenure!!
Life List Items – Do the John Muir Trail in 2013 when I am 58 years old.
Life List: Run a half marathon. Scheduled for April 1, 2012 — my 30th birthday. Race for the Roses in Portland, Oregon. Who’s with me?!
I did something this week that wasn’t on my life list but was an echo of a life list item. (Life list item #4: write a donation check for $10,000) (I’ve only come up with 15 items on my list so far, having just started after reading about the Mighty Summit participants). It was one of those random things that fly across one’s horizon: I was given a flyer for a weekend workshop – primarily for teenage girls to learn to make videos for a web series/webcast/.…. No girl would be turned away for lack of funds. So I sent a check to pay for one girl’s participation – I can’t really afford it, and yet I simply had to, and I feel soooooo good.
Thank you for this place of inspiration and challenge.
One item on my life list is to learn how to surf.
I know there are a million jillion entries on this, but next, when you announce the winner, I will have just completed my first class in medical school. Medical school, which I made my first item on my life list, when I first discovered your blog. Either way, Maggie- Thanks.
I would like to design a fabulous line of dresses for plus size women (like me!).
I have just started the preliminary research for one of my list goals – open a plus-size boutique that carries clothing I love.
Slowly working my way through my life list and having a blast doing it. Attended a rodeo last month and plan to make a cake from scratch (two-layer with frosting)!
Mighty Supplies! Just what I need.
Wahoo!
I am finally finishing my business degree and can’t wait to cross this from my life list. Life is good and is just getting better. Thanks for the inspiration.
Scuba dive off coast of Costa Rica.
I was inspired to write my mighty life list..(and after reading so many others I realized hey, I’ve done some neat things so I also wrote my Mighty Things I’ve Done list. This yearci crossed 2 more things off my list: I crossed the equator to see water swirl counter clockwise down the drain and I went to Buenos Aires. Thank you for inspiring me.
Next up :: travel Europe for 2 weeks!
My newest project is mindfully becoming an adult. It’s hard!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Have my own art studio – I am making a conscious change to embrace my art, and having a studio is a big step in the process. I feel it’s coming soon.
My latest life list goal: Sit my parents down in front of a video camera with a big box of old photos and have them talk me through each picture, explaining the people and situation as best they can remember it.
Lifetime goal: become a gourmet cook!
Life list: number 97, win something from the internet : )
Life list goal: Bake a pie. From total scratch. I have an irrational fear of creating a pie crust, so this one is a little panic-inducing.
Crossing fingers & toes!
I would like to ask all invitees coming to my daughter’s 4th birthday party to bring a food donation for the local food bank instead of a gift, and not care how precious that makes me seem to the yummy mummies in my ‘hood.
I will finish this house, including the basement.
This year I’ve done a few things on my life list, but the next is to do something I’m afraid of.
life goal: start my own business
To adopt a child. Not sure where this child of mine is or when he/she will enter my life. But I know somewhere, out there, my child is waiting.
To travel by myself… this scares me.
To sell my house and start over unencumbered.
On the Life List…Forgive BIG
Visit my dutch relatives in The Netherlands, enjoy the tulips, food, and bike riding
What a beautiful collection of goodies! One item on my life list is to run a half marathon. I’ve been training this year and hope to complete it in early 2012.
I’m going to learn to dive gracefully. Or at least so it doesn’t make people think “hey, that girl might be drowning!”
One thing on my life list is to learn how to fly.
I will graduate with my MA in Linguistics in June 2012.
To write a book.
Vacation in a castle somewhere in Britain (secondary goal) to celebrate PAYING OFF MY STUDENT LOANS (primary goal).
Well, hello thousands of comments! Look at you go!
I’m in for the draw, please and thank you.
Enter a giveaway contest. (really!)
I really want to take a trapeze class. Can’t wait for Camp Mighty!
Someday I’m going to drive a tractor.
My dream is to finally make myself enjoy a trip to Europe without worrying about things stateside.
You gals went over the top filling these bags!
Holy snap buckets. Hm. I’m trying to think of just one life list item that I would put here. So, I’m just going to put like my top three right now: pay off credit card bills before the end of the year, finish losing the excess weight and tone up, and publish my thesis.
Tops on my life list: Figure out how not to be afraid of the truth. It’s a toughie.
Last year the boyfriend of one of my good friends passed away 5 hours away from home. I went to meet her so that I could be with her while she waited her for his body to be recovered. Afterward, my grieving friend drove us back home in her boyfriend’s car… but it was manual, so I couldn’t help with the drive. After that, I swore I’d learn to drive manual – and later this month that same friend is going to teach me!
On my life list? Move away. I’ve been stuck in the ‘burbs of Chicago for almost 3 1/2 years now (came to finish school, stayed because I couldn’t find a job). While I’m not positive where yet, I know I want a place with some beautiful scenery!
Life list item: swim in 40 rivers (only up to 10 so far and can’t wait to “work” on this goal some more!)
On my life list: to go get that masters degree I’ve been coveting. Also, to be the lead room mother of my daughter’s kindergarten class in 5 years. I want to immerse myself in cupcakes.
To sleep in a treehouse once a year.
On my list: 10 day trip to Paris. Just booked it for April as a 10 year anniversary trip! So excited. The list has been an inspiration!
I want to take my kids to Paris!
On my life list? Starting and finishing the next great novel!
On the list…
*see an ocean once per year
*return to teaching
*leave a legacy to be proud of
To do a Gulf Coast driving tour!
I want to knit some famiy treasures – much like the ones my grandma knit for me.
The next thing on my life list is to move to a new city or country!
Over the last year I’ve been working on cooking everything in a cookbook for my lifelist. I have 10 recipes left!
Travel has always been on my life list. In 2008, we sold everything and traveled (family of 4) for 10 months. Now we live smaller and take a couple of 6 week trips a year.
Number one, and the only thing that matters, is to get healthy so that I can have the mental space to consider working on a list. Luckily, I have an amazing physician and supportive husband on board, and we’re heading in the right direction.
Yes please! Oh my gosh, so many good things. I’m jealous of the winner already. Unless it’s me, then I’m just excited.
Working on reaching my ideal weight for my life list, then I can switch to maintaining it! Good giveaway!
Move to Oregon is on my list, and I’ve started applying to jobs!
Go camping with my family.
The main thing on my list this year is to raise my good puppy into a great dog.
I really want to learn how to wrap presents beautifully.
I also want to make cheese from scratch!
These are both items on my list.
I’m working my way through decorating my house (finally). I’m thisclose to finishing my girls’ room. It’s so cute that it’s inspired me to finish the rest of the house!
Finish. College. SOMEDAY!
Take a photography class. This is one of two things I am asking for, for Christmas. The second being take a cooking class.
I took surf lessons this summer and got a loaner board from a friend of mine. I can’t quite cross “learn to surf” off of my list yet, but I’m closer than I’ve ever been and I’m already looking forward to doing it again next summer!!
Learn to speak Italian with my kids and enjoy la dolce vita.
Life list –
Fall Weekend in Tennessee – football game with family and family pictures taken by Amy Beth Bullard.
Yay free stuff!
Join A Book Club – the thing on My Life List I have decided to do today! I suggested the Tiger’s Wife and can’t wait to get started.
I just started taking piano lessons so that I will one day play Mozart’s Turkish March from beginning to end. Also want to share that I got my two sisters to start their life list, and in December, we’re planning our life list retreat.
Life List: someday I will have abs like I did before having children. And I will make the perfect chocolate chip cookie. And I fully acknowledge one may negate the other.
Fun stuff! As for the list, I’m currently registered to run my first half marathon at the end of January. Nervous but excited.
I just checked “finish a triathlon” off my life list yesterday! But I enjoyed it so much, I think I may have created a monster.
I am planning a trip to Santiago, Chile + Patagonia for next year! Life List #34, Hike Patagonia. Great inspiration from you.
Take a cross-country road trip with my husband & son.
#25 on my life list: win something
I have seen life in pictures since my teens. I want to know my camera so much better, so that it is just an extension of myself!
To eat steak and dulce de leche in Argentina — a goal I will be able to cross off next month, because I am visiting Buenos Aires for my honeymoon!
Attending the Olympic Games has been on the top of my life list for 4 years now. So when the boyfriend casually mentioned that he would like to study abroad next summer, I started endorsing Oxford as a top choice.
We’ll see what happens!
Visit Mt. Rushmore.
Bake delicious homemade bread.
how can I love everything? It’s like a totebag full of love.
Now that you posted where the best beignets are, I know where to go to cross “eating beignets in New Orleans with my brother” off my list.
To visit every continent in the world at least once. About half way there now, but there’s still work to be done!
I am running/walking a half marathon this weekend. It will be my first ever and I don’t feel exactly majestic about it now, but since I just got dumped, I’m actually really glad to have a very physical (healthy) way to work through some emotions.
wow! what a lovely giveaway!
To clean my life of unhealthy people. This is a lot tougher than I thought…
I really want to learn to deep sea dive. It scares me to death but, I think it would be so fun.
What a lovely bag o’ goodies. Thanks!
To run a marathon – just finished my first half so I’m getting there!
On my life list: Conquer the sewing machine!
I’m going to finally finish the novel I’ve been working on (and off- mostly off!) since 2009. And then I can finally start its sequel.
I just added “bake a souffle” to my life list… along with “take a ride in biplane”. Hoping to cross them off by next summer if all goes well. Thanks for all of the inspiration!
Fairly typical Life List item but damnit, some day I will do it: Write a novel.
In about three months I’ll be crossing off “See the Taj Mahal” from my life list! I AM SO EXCITED
Finish our wedding album…just in time for our ten year anniversary.
Ride a horse! Giddyup!
Get a piano so that I can play whenever I want!
Ride a tandem bike with the love of my life*, in coordinating outfits.
*Also on the list was marry him. Check!
i’m taking my fist violin lesson tomorrow. always wanted to be able to play an instrument!
I’m in the process of learning how to light a fire sans matches (or lighter)/.
After the beautiful, well-planned and elegant funerals of 2 relatives, my cousin and I made a pact to create a 2-part girls weekend:
Part 1: When I die… we talk about and write down the funeral music, readings, flowers, and, equally important, post-funeral favorite beverages, party music (80s rock to pogo and slam dance to)…
Part 2: Reveal bucket lists and aim to know 2-3 items off them.
I’m getting married to my lover and best friend next weekend! I am looking forward to sharing a lifetime of adventures with him.
I’d love to go to Belgium with my husband and drink really good beer.
Thank you for the contest. I would like to make shadow boxes that honor my grandparents’ lives — with photos and meaningful items from their lives like pocketwatches and handkerchiefs.
One of my life list items is to visit 5 of the top 10 largest waterfalls in the world. I’ll be crossing off the first one in two weeks when I go to Argentina and visit Iguazu Falls!
#1 on my Life List: I’ve never traveled outside of the US. Will one day take an extended vacation to Europe.
I plan to decorate and organize my apartment so it feels like home.
Making a trip to Italy with my soon-to-be husband….I’ve always wanted to go, and I can’t imagine a better person to go along….
I just gave birth to my first child, a handsome little boy. He’s just the best thing since sliced bread.
To drink whiskey in a bar in Ireland with my husband.
I must travel to India!
drive on the autobahn
I just crossed off the #1 item on my Life List two weeks ago: see sunrise from the top of Half Dome in Yosemite! I can happily say that it was everything I hoped it would be.
Thanks so much, Maggie, for inspiring me to write the list in the first place!
I could sure use help figuring out how to be happier, but it sounds like such a great confrence. Wish I could have gone!
life list: to make jam!
when I first pulled up your site I thought woo – the tote says Sarah! That’s a sign – I should leave my comment.
I want to try acupuncture.
I want to learn how to throw a good punch.
Bring a baby into the world – and learn to let go of control…
I just keep adding things to my life list. Recent entries include: putting sweet notes into books in the YA section at the library, catch and release fireflies, and sleep in a bed in a field of lavender.
My Life List comment is that I, um, should really make one. I’ve just moved diagonally across the country, so I guess my first thing can be Find a Paying Client in LA
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on my list for this year – make a killer sourdough
Learn to cross country ski – and manage not to kill myself in the process.
Drive down the coast in a convertable!
My life list is long and evolving, but I’ve always wanted to go on a hot air balloon ride!
Oooooh, TIEKS! I’d enter the giveaway just for a pair of those (note to self: add “own a pair of Tieks” to the life list).
One of the big things on my life list is to learn to speak at least basic conversational Urdu so I can hold a conversation with my very sweet Pakistani grandmother-in-law. At the moment, all we can really do is smile at each other and use silly hand signals. While I value all of the smiling we do on Skype, it sure would be nice to be able to surprise her one day with a real conversation.
When my best friend passed away 2 years ago I made my life list. Thus far I’ve crossed off 7 items. The goal for the next 6 months is to cross off at least 2 more.
on my life list: send more postcards!
love your giveaways. wish i had made it to the mighty summit!!
On my life list: Move to London, Become a Writer.
The full list: http://elizabethfarrar.blogspot.com/p/bella-vita-list.html
To stop coloring my hair and let the gray shine through! But not until I’m 50.
Replace the carpet in my house — mundane but sooooo necessary.
oh most pretty please.
Pick me!
To visit every state in the U.S.
Planning on hosting a fancy dress cocktail party. Woo!
Start a life list.
1. Take some time to breathe.
Learning to surf has been on my life list for a while. Just 4 more months and I’ll be making it happen!
On the life list: lie in a hammock tied between two palm trees on the beach.
I want to go to a dog rescue and save every dog, no matter how many. I’d pile them into my car and drive off, like in the movie ‘Year of the Dog.’
Red Tieks are on my life list.
On my life list this year is to take a vacation with my sister who moved across the country 5 years ago. I miss her dearly and we never get to see each other any more.
I’d love to take my children to their first Broadway shows.
I LOVE the idea of a simple piece of jewelry serving as a reminder of a promise to yourself. Whether it’s a Life List or a goal or a dream… whatever… it’s brilliant.
What an amazing giveaway!!!
A long time ago (30 years ago), I was fairly fluent in Spanish, but it’s mostly slipped away. The goal I’m working on daily is to re-learn Spanish. It’s slow, but I’m making progress!
On my life list: complete a(n imperial) century bike ride.
thank you.
Honestly? Near the top of my list right now is getting the hell out of Houston. I just wasn’t built for this weather.
(I bought The Happiness Project not too long ago and love it. It very easily could have come across pretty inaccessibly, but Gretchen Rubin’s emphasis on staying true to who you are is unerringly consistent.)
Pick me! Pick me! I checked out Gretchen Rubin’s book from my library but only got about 2 chapters in before I had to return it. Someone else had put a hold on it, so I couldn’t renew it. The list of holds is pretty long.
On my life list, I’d like to have a productive enough garden/berry bushes/satsuma trees/whatever that I have something fresh to eat from my own backyard for every season.
Thanks for the chance to win!
My great grandfather, who passed away when I was young, was from Lebanon. I want to visit long lost family there and reconnect with my roots!
I have wanted a pair of tieks for a while now! Thanks!
I just started creating a life list this month. I have 7 more goals to think of before I post it on my blog. I am including 2 things that I’ve actually already done, because I tend to be too hard on myself about what I have (read: haven’t) achieved so far in my life, and they are really awesome things to have done: be a lead singer in a band, and celebrate Oktoberfest in Munich. xo
I want to learn to make really good bagels from scratch.
One of the items on my life list was to run 10K a week. I finally was able to cross it out- ran 15K a week. And then, few months ago, I ran 10K in a DAY!
) that was the most exciting thing ever 
I really want to close out both of my parents’ estates within the next six months, so that I can attend to the other goals on my life list. Like: being an officiant at a wedding.
I can’t wait to learn to surf with my kids.
With 1546 comments ahead of mine I have little chance of winning but one of my life goals is hosting a child through the Fresh Air Fund. Thanks for the giveaway, even if someone else wins!
My most favorite item on my life list is to buy land in the San Juan islands, Washington. I just love breathing the air up there.
I’d like to finish the degree I’m working on because getting this is something I’ve wanted to do, but also I want to finish so that I can devote more time to things that give me joy.
Make my daughter’s Halloween costume! Using your fish/nemo directions. And write down my list for real, in one place, not on just scraps and apps.
Wow. I totally want to go to the Mighty Conference now! How amazing is that.
My last of 3 life goals left to make happen is to sing live with the Indigo Girls. How can I make that happen?!
On my life list: Find my adopted brothers.
One thing on my list: learn to play guitar! I think I’m getting one soon.
I looked at my life list and realized I need to add less far off things, things that require the kids to be a little more grown up. Then I got to thinking why my list is that way, am I content or just so occupied I think there is no time for me yet? My most attainable goal on the list was to buy red shoes and I am still searching. Why am I so slow to achieve that mundane task? If I win this I know what color shoes I will select!
I love it! As a grad student I don’t get to indulge in monogrammed bags. So fun!
Take my photography to the next level!
Take a professional orchestral clarinet audition.
Just bought a wetsuit to tackle some of my list items.
Today I made bolognese sauce from scratch. Check one off the list.
Oh camel Tieks size 11, how I need thee!
The biggest thing on my life list right now is to exercise three times a week. I’ve been really bad about doing something for myself the past few months, and I can feel it.
On my life list – Give my son an absolutely amazing birthday that he’ll talk about for years
Awesome give away! I have been dying for a pair of those shoes!
My life list has always been filled with experiencing new cultures and travelling. I want to see as much of the world as possible and for starters, I’d like to step foot on every continent. With my son due next month, I hope he will be able to join me on the last few trips to make this goal happen.
I have to win, since a bag already exists with my name on it.
Current and most pressing life list item is the Tough Mudder in Florida. This means feet to the pavement and running for the first time in my adult life. It seems to help with all other life list items when one is physically strong and feeling in full woman warrior mode. Lovely round-up of items, ideas and inspiration, as always.
The most important thing on my life list for this year: get healthy. I’ve done the “quit smoking” part, so here’s to the rest of what I have to do!
On my life list is to sew a dress I look fabulous in!
I started to tune my ukulele. Only 2.5 months left to learn my first song!
My evolving list has always included going to Africa.
Goal – to one day live at the beach.
Learn to play and sing one song on my acoustic guitar. I purchased this beautiful instrument several years ago under the watchful eye of my very musical father (I inherited none of his musical talent), and after a couple of false starts of learning to play it has sat sad and lonely in the corner of my dining room. With everthing going on in my life, learning to play for real is too ambitious, but learning one song, just one song, is going to happen.
Great Giveaway! Goal – to be able to quit my day job make a living writing my blog
To drive along the Pacific Coast Highway.
I’ve been on the library waiting list for the Happiness Project for months. I feel like it’s just the inspiration I need right now!
Love it! I’m starting my sewing classes this weekend…
Dahlia’s are my favorite flower, too. I even found one variety (I prefer to believe) that is named after me, Brooke Nicole.
As for my life list, I recently added the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to the list. And I’m takin’ my Mama. Someday.
Lovely giveaway! I have a big life list cross off coming up! I’m going to Rome for a grad school session. Shut yer mouth, right?!
I am going to make homemade marshmallows someday.
I want to decorate my house more because I think that’s the environment that really affects me.
Go to New York and see a Broadway show!
Learn to make pottery has been on my list for some time. I hope to take a class over the winter. You are truly an inspiration for others to take on goals in life! High five!
i’d like to find a chocolate factory that provides tours and free samples, then take said tour. i’ll bring a friend, or five.
On the life list and about to be checked off – Have a cute baby!
I want to have my own bakery and quit my desk job.
Fill all the frames in my house with pictures!
I just checked off cross country road trip from my list and it was awesome!
there are so many things on my life list that it’s hard to pick just one, but…
i want to learn to dance. ballroom dance, salsa, just dance.
I want to do lots of therapy so I can run. This is a great giveaway!! I want to be mighty too!!
Throw a big Halloween party! And I don’t think it’s too late to do it this year!
Learn to rock-climb. Check.
I covet every last bit. Cheers!
Take a European river cruise. I want to float down the Danube looking at the pretty scenery
I would like to overcome my fear of heights and take a trapeze class.
I will draw something that I’m proud of. (This will be a magical intersection of significantly developing my skills and getting my inner critic to shut up a little.)
I wan to visit all 50 states!
My life list includes putting on a gallery show of my artwork. Eeek!
I just made a life list with my sister on Yom Kippur as part of our atonement. I decided I need to start following through with my creative ideas, live in the now and cut the anxiety! I’m going to start selling my crafts and I’m collaborating on a calendar!
my life list includes riding in a hot air balloon, starting a business which will use my creative energy to it’s fullest, and learn to live a life filled with grace and compassion…
I’d love to take my Dad to London. He’s never been out of the country (besides Canada) and I’d love to take him there sometime.
I’m *this* close to completing one of my major goals: run in a marathon! Been training for months and the date is set for 11/05!
I recently got to place half a check mark next to something on my life list: Get my motorcycle license! Previously, I’d never even been on one! I ended up signing up for the weekend class, which culminated in the licensing ‘exam.’ Though I ended up being the ONLY person to fail the test, I didn’t end up crashing OR hurting anyone or myself and I was proud of myself for going so far out of my (safe!) comfort zone! I consider that a success!
I am going to look for a new job.
I want to write my first novel.
To do something with horses. Learn to ride, work in a barn and shovel poop, volunteer at some horse rescue facility. I think I would love every minute of any of these things.
my life list is in flux right now since i had my second child this past summer… i have plans to revisit it and revise the list… one thing i would like to include is live abroad (again) with my family this time, somewhere in asia…
in the works now: pay off our house so we can fulfill another life goal of visiting every continent.
Learn to weave and make a rug!
I’ve just started compiling my life list, but right there near the top is getting something I’ve written published, somewhere else besides my blog, where I’ve been practicing for far too long!
oh, something on my life list is to decide if my stepmom experience is interesting enough to write down and publish (and to write that book).
Life List:
To travel to Romania to see where my grandfather was born, and a spend a night in the family home.
I wish to take a driving tour and visit every state in the US.
I hope to visit every national park. I am about to cross off a life list desire to renovate and redesign my bathroom
Oh, what a great giveaway.
Something on my list: write a novel. It scares me just to admit it.
Go back to school. Someday.
I need to get started on: give homemade gifts for Christmas.
Someday we will live as a family in Europe and travel all over all the time. I almost can’t wait and have started what I call the totally possible 10 year plan.
life list: visit at least 6 local festivals a year (and take lots of photos at them)
Visit every national park in the United States.
First on my list–do a 365 days photo project. It’s on my 40 before 40 list. I have a year and one month left!
thanks for inspiring me to engage with my life list again! I’d been neglecting it for far too long.
All of these items are so beautiful! I have been following your blog since 2005. It just keeps getting better!
My tote could even say Sarah, I don’t mind. Pick me random number generator!
I marked off a biggie last month: have an unmedicated birth (and it ended up being in my living room!)
Still on the list: take my husband to Hawaii.
A random item on my Life List: learn to do dishes using less water.
I want to hike the Inca Trail!
#1 is learn to scuba dive. Preferably in Thailand
I’m crossing something off this weekend- learn to carve. I love the necklace!!
I would like to become a homeowner! With a kickin’ yard!
I want to take my kids swimming in my tropical island home of Saipan.
Learn how to knit a properly fitting sweater with no unintentional holes.
I wrote a life list a couple of years ago (at your suggestion). But never actually did anything with it. This year I decided to actually cross some things off. I ran my first half-marathon last month and I’m about to cross off two more. Thank you for always inspiring.
I made a life list about 19 years ago with my best friend. When I read about your life list project. . . I began revising the life list from 19 years ago.
Item on both lists: have a garden. I finally have one.
I think that the bag looks great as is!
The next item on my list is a half marathon!
My list hasn’t made it to 100 yet. One item — spend the night in a treehouse or ice hotel.
I want to visit all 50 states before I am 50.
On my list is to learn to dive in and look good while doing it. I can manage to not belly flop but I would like to learn how to do it gracefully.
A few items:
Learn to can salsa!
Visit every playground in my city!
Go on a hike at least once a month?
Take the boys blueberry picking…
This last one has morped into “take the boys to pick apples” which will be doing in 2 weeks. I love the life list idea, it’s a nice way to add cheer in my life when things are not otherwise cheerful (the economy, husband’s lack of employment, the weather). Also inspired me to explore all beautiful places right here in my backyard. As a list person, it’s also nice to continually make goals in life!
First of all, thanks for life list reminders. I’d like to fish on Roger Daltrey’s farm.
I want this bag!
Life list: Find a tea that I actually enjoy.
On the list: learn how to make beer.
Restart my blog and fill it with memories of an amazing life.
Someday I’ll learn to bake bread. Lots of bread!
on the life list: RTW cruise with my love!
Get my Ph.D
Get married
Finally use my pasta machine
I’m scared to write a life list. I’m a lawyer and a mom, struggling to balance, afraid to add any more to my plate. My life list: write a life list.
Love this giveaway!
On my life list (as of just recently!)RX a crossfit workout!
I just started working on my life list and one of the items on it is to eat gelato while sitting in a plaza in Portugal.
I just crossed off “make out in the rain” (I can’t believe that took me so long to cross off, but it was totally worth the wait).
Next up: erect a bat house!
I’m a terrible singer and don’t drink, but I’d love to sing karaoke at a bar!
Ooh, I need a pair of those flats so badly, and adore that dahlia necklace!!
I just started my life list over on Laura’s blog, and came over here, and I guess continuing my list.
Organization in my life is #2 on my list! (A healthier lifestyle for my family and I-#1)
Thanks for the inspiration!
P.S. I bookmarked your page!
Drink a 50 year old whiskey
Skydive.
I love having this on my list. It seems so beyond my usual, yet achievable.
I would like to learn to sew.
Finishing my novel is #1 on my life list!
On the life list: Take my niece (she’s
to NY to see her first Broadway show!
One of my life goals is to take pictures of children in 20 different countries. I think it’s gonna take a while!
Stop dating depressed musicians. I guess it’s more of a vague, existential goal than something I can readily check off, but hey, that counts too, yes?
I want to teach my son to sail!
what a great gift bag!
i’d like to finally learn Spanish.
Run for office!
I’d like to make homemade marshmallows with my sweet son, hear Niagara Falls roar, learn to surf, and once and for all get that discriminatory federal gay tax penalty – you know the one that refuses to recognize my legal marriage to another woman – abolished.
And wearing that pretty necklace would be nice too.
I’ve been coveting those shoes ever since you first wrote about them!
What a fantastic (and exceptionally generous) giveaway!
I just recently checked an item off my Life List: attend Oktoberfest in Munich. Ein prosit!
become a mother
I want to throw myself a kickass 30th birthday party – because I deserve it.
One of the items on my Life List is to live abroad for a year. I’m already an expat, but only from the US to Canada. I’d like to try something more different, and thus more exciting. God only knows when I can make this happen – but I will.
This year: make a life list!
Also, finish a big quilting project this year.
Fun giveaway! Thanks!
Do a triathlon!
Make my bed every day.
Well, I haven’t started making a life list per se, though I think I need to write it all down. What I’ve started doing is living it. I quit my job in the summer, and I’m taking the chance to figure out what I really want to do – to be happy and not just financially independent. I’m also taking the opportunity to get back into creative stuff, and see whether that’s where my future lies. I used to write fiction, and I left it aside some time ago. I have bought materials so I can try painting and mixed media art, and sewing. I used to make greeting cards with stamps (I’m addicted to stamps), and so I’ve got out my old stuff, and bought a bunch of new stuff to get going on that.
Maybe the first thing I need to do is to get over my fear of failure and just do!
Live in a major city that isn’t Seattle. The Gray has gotten old after 23 years.
learn how to ‘throw’ pottery.
I want to ride a pony! I need my little cousin to grow up a few years so I can take her and pretend I’m only there to be a good cousin. It seems odd to ride a pony in your thirties for some reason.
Have another kid and/or learn how to play the piano
I’m having my first baby in two weeks – biggest life list cross off ever for me!
Me! Me! Me! Life List: take my children to Italy.
I’d like to visit every state in the U.S. So far I’ve been to 24. Totally doable.
I want to go on an all women’s wilderness adventure, in the North West Territories of Canada or in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. I chickened out from booking it this past summer (with Wild Women Expeditions), and darn it, I am going to SAVE and PLAN to make this one happen!
complete some type of body-pushing marathon. I’m registered to do the 4 day 300 mile Wisconsin AIDS ride next August.
* An extended family vacation to Italy and France
* Show my children the beauty of Canada – visit all provinces and territories with them in tow (or leading the way!)
* travel to Ireland
* trace my family tree
travel to cuba!
Someday I will finally be able to quit my day job and work for myself!
Travel to Australia and Hawaii!
Reupholster a chair. A real one, not just the kind where you remove the board and recover it with a much, much cooler fabric with staples. I want to tie springs together and put on piping!
life list item: raise chickens
Finish my undergraduate degree!
Have a baby.
Finish my Masters … I have one semester to go and it is soooo hard right now!!!
Become a mother!
Next week checking off surfing off the California coast. A big item for this Canuck.
One of my LifeList goals is “Write a book” and I’m getting ready to use NaNoWriMo to help me accomplish that.
Honeymooning in Cali in August helped me realize another, “go to San Francisco”. It has been replaced with “go to San Francisco again”
Next up on my Life List is starting a family!
I want to go to Belize. I’m not even sure why anymore but it’s been on my life list for years, so I keep it there.
on my life list right now is to go to Milwaukee. Weird, maybe but I have wanted to since I was little and loved Laverne and Shirley. We may be moving from the midwest soon and I want to go while I still am close.
thank you for this awesome giveaway!
Drive across Canada with the kids and camp the entire way.
Fantastic giveaway! Want. On the life list: make goat cheese from my own goat!
Write a book, rescue an off the track racehorse.
I will lean to breakdance. Even if it doesn’t happen until I’m 92.
New goals: family more, work less.
1. master the art of baking bread.
2. travel to iceland.
Decided this weekend: create life list. First on my list? Quit the job that I do not like and pursue something that will bring me joy. #2 – skinny dip.
Thank you.
Visit glacier national park.
Pet bumble bees.
buy ridiculously expensive underwear
I want to learn how to flamenco dance.
Item #235 on my Life List: Visit Australia with my kids.
i just signed up for an improv class, checking something off my life list!
Make snow angels with my kids. They have never seen real snow.
Travel to Greece!
Such great giveaway items! Newly added to my list: I want to take a photography course.
Paint something I’d be proud to hang on my wall.
Ride my bike in Italy! A friend even bought me a book as an incentive.
Travel to Italy!!
Winning one of your fantastic giveaways is on my Life List!
What a great giveaway! I just checked off nighttime lake skinny diving, and I’m working on completing a drawing every day for a year, thank you for the consistant inspiration.
Learn to not stress about the little things and to immerse myself in the perfect moments as they come.
Get boudoir photos of me taken and put together a saucy photo book for my husband.
LOVE this post! thanks for the opportunity. On my Life List: finding time to get back into what makes ME function better – music and art. Very tough to do given the demands of a career, 3 wonderful kids, a house, and a husband.
Reading your blog is so inspiring. I have been actively checking off items my life list for the past two years. Next up: Heading to Barcelona in November to take a cooking lessons. I feel such a sense of accomplishment when I mark items off the list.
i would love to win this collection of goodies!
on my life list this year is enjoying the present…really savoring it and remembering to laugh.every.day.
This is quite the collection of awesome. You are amazing Mighty Girl.
On my Life List? Get through Law School…which I am currently keeping myself from doing by reading on the internet! Whoops…here’s to getting back to it. (Cute party bags! Nice job Mighty Summit!)
16. Build a deluxe tree house/fort/hideout in our backyard!!!
1. Swim with Sharks in South Africa
…treats, treats, treats
surf in hawaii!
Run!! I want to be healthy enough to enjoy running.
I confess I haven’t started my life list – but winning this would enourage me to do so!
Learn to knit. I hate that I haven’t learned to do this yet!
Dress well everyday. I’ve been killing it, this week.
I’ve lived in Atlanta, GA for my entire life (26 years). I want to be brave enough to live in another part of the country, even if only for a year or so.
Go on a trip with my husband to celebrate our 10th anniversary.
The Happiness Project has been on my list for awhile now, and I think my life is finally ready for that inspiration!
Learn to play the guitar.
Take care of and live with a dog. (In my dreams I have a german sheperd and a havanese.)
Learn to bake al types of bread and pizza crusts.
I’d like to spend a month in Australia.
In the process of crossing off something on my life list… I am into my first semester of my Masters of Education degree! I also just crossed something off that I didn’t know was even on my life list until I did it- I made and decorated my son’s first birthday cake from scratch.
On the Life List: to camp by the Colorado River.
Making my family grow – currently 22 weeeks away from achieving that.
make a quilt!..
on my life list: learn how to not hate running with all my heart.
A trip to New York was always on my list, and I’m typing this entry from my hotel room in Manhattan!
List for 2011-2012. Start my business. Check. Begin designing a website. Check. Redesign website, leave iweb behind and say hello to wordpress. In the works. Helping families improve their daily performance and overall health with whole foods and natural strategies. Check. Write my book. In the works. Commit to 750words.com. Check. Have outline to publishers by December 31, 2011. In the works. Keeping my five children and husband, healthy and happy….always a work in progress.
My life list is focusing on number #1 right now, complete my bachelors degree this decade!
Start a neighborhood garden.
Take my mom on an Alaskan cruise. That would check off two things on my list: see Alaska and take my mom on vacation.
Spend a whole summer in France.
Love the blog and the giveaway!! Fingers crossed.
My goal is to get down to a healthy weight and stay there
Awesome giveaway! On my life list…going to France and touring the country. So excited to be fulfilling this in May on my honeymoon!!!
A pause to the moments that don’t make any list but quickly become the goal you never knew you had::::
Currently sitting on the patio of my house in northern thailand listening to the styling sounds of a Thai dudes ringtone and the songs of the jungle around me.
Who would have guessed???
P.s. It’s a great place to hang out for Loy Krathong…just saying…
P.p.s. I have a US address so I think I qualify for your goodies
I would love to win this!
Two things on my list: take a cross-country roadtrip and see Alaska. This August, my man and I left Pennsylvania, drove all the way to northwest Washington state (one down!) and boarded a ferry to Alaska (and two down!). We now live in a state park for the winter. Mighty Life Lists are awesome!
On my life list: Hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain
Become a foster parent. I should be certified by the end of the month!
Beautiful! I love the idea of the life list. My most recent life list accomplishment is leasing a horse for my daughter to ride. It made a big dream of hers come true, and it’s something I truly never thought that I would be able to say that I’ve done. (I know – we don’t really own him. But still, he’s kind of ours!)
I think my Hawaii-related things are on my mind the most, as my kids count down days until the trip (less than 90!).
I want to be the best cook in the family. To do that I must learn from both my Dad and my husband’s Aunt.
I checked off some living-in-Chicago things this summer but my list is still huge and growing. I really want to do the Wild Cave tour (more intense Mammoth Cave tour, with miner’s helmets and the expectation that you will come out filthy and exhausted), which is in my home state of Kentucky.
Love the entire idea behind the mighty summit…
One thing on my list i look forward to marking off the most–Spend a summer traveling with my family in an RV
learn to use my camera really well
ohmygod, i doubt I will win because there are soooo many entries but announcing what i want to complete will give me more of a push to complete it, right? So, even if i don’t win this contest, i win in life because I am able to complete my goal.
So, one item on my life list is to…. Get my PH.D!!!!!!
Taking the year off and enjoying the time with my newborn. He will be 3 months old tomorrow. It is bittersweet to see him not being a baby anymore.
One of the goals on my life list is to adopt or foster a child. It’s something I’ve wanted to do since I was in elementary school, and I’m working on encouraging my husband to take the leap.
I love your blog Maggie!
Someday I will learn to use the fancy-ass sewing machine my husband got me for my birthday last year (for more than simple hems, which I have DOWN).
My goal is actually to start a life list
I recently crossed two HUGE items off my life list – getting a particular job, which I started last week, and having a baby. My baby girl is due in February! I imagine that the shape and tone of my life list will change dramatically along with her arrival. One of my goals will be to try not to let the last two goals conflict with each other – that is, don’t let my job get in the way of having fun with my kid, nor letting my kid get in the way of a fulfilling career.
I would love to win this!
Someday I will learn to knit.
I just had my second daughter. Safely at home, drug free when everyone told me I couldn’t. it was fantastic
Complete 1/2 marathon – doing this in 2012!
Become fluent in Spanish
I would love to live in Japan someday.
Trust my gut (and a guy) enough to really fall in love.
Love the blog!!!
I’d like to always live somewhere where I can hear church bells.
This year I’m hoping to finally se the Le Man Race in France.
Checked off this year: Visit Austin
Just about to be checked off: Take piano lessons with my 7-year-old son
Up next: Make a shrine for my Day of the Dead calacas.
Thanks for the inspiration and good vibes!
This year I am working on finally learning how to sew.
Run another half marathon, to be checked off on October 29!
I want to go to Hawaii in a beautiful ship, in the presidential suite, and having the money to do any excursion I want; and I want this at the end of my chemotherapy in case I can’t do it later…
Redhead
On my list:
Live in a foreign country.
I moved to Nepal for a year (that’s where I’m reading your blog from!) to work with an NGO that places volunteers with orphanages and schools around the country. Best life list item I could have ever done.
Love the necklace and what it represents, by the way.
I want to travel to Italy and take cooking classes, attend Pastry School, be a better mother and wife!