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’.
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!
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”.
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.
:D
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.
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.
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…
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! :o)
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!
I am going to milk a cow by hand.
On Life List: Attend Mighty Summit !!
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On Life List: Attend the mermaid parade in NY
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! :D
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.