When we were pulling together gifts for the Mighty Summit, we set a few aside to give away.
If you’d like to enter to win one, please share an item from your Life List in the comments below. One winner will be chosen from comments on this site, the other from Mighty Summit co-founder Laura Mayes’s Blog Con Queso.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment on each site, because it’s the nice thing to do, and also because multiple entries 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 Wednesday. You have to live in the United States or Canada to enter, because holy holy the shipping is ludicrous if you don’t. Fingers crossed for you.
Update: We have two winners, announced here and here. Thank you to all who participated!
Here’s what’s up for grabs:
1. Ephiphanie Camera Bag by Maile Wilson (shown in top and side views)
These compartmentalized camera totes were designed by Summit photographer Maile Wilson, who used to wrap her DSLR in a towel and shove it in her purse. Sound familiar? Contest winners can choose form any of the designs and colors shown on the site. So you should probably get a yellow one.
2. Chevron Necklace by Feisty Elle
This delicate wood necklace is by San Francisco designer Leslie Yang of Feisty Elle, who makes light easy pieces that make you look pulled together in jeans and a T-shirt. We love this necklace because it resembles an arrow, which is a symbol of courage.
3. Tieks by Gavrieli
Gah! These are my favorite things. Tieks are beautifully made, non-skid flats that fold up to fit in your purse. Once you try them on, they’ll never leave your feet, and they stand up to years of daily wear. Contest winner can choose among the rainbow of fruit flavors available on the Tieks website.
4. Scarf by Mixed Bag Design
These soft scarves go with everything, and the Mixed Bag website allows you to hold fundraisers for causes close to your heart.
5. Bliss Beauty Soaps and Scrubs
In blood orange and white pepper. Do not eat them.
6. The Quintet Necklace by Lemonade Handmade
Another favorite thing that makes me sigh. Every year, Mighty Summit attendees make a list of five things they hope to accomplish in the coming year. This delicate, simple necklace symbolizes those goals. Tiny brass rings just within reach.
7. Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown
A book that encourages you to go be brave. We are pro bravery around here.
8. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson
Mighty Summit alum Jenny Lawson, a.k.a. The Bloggess, wrote this movingly funny book, which includes a chapter on the very first Mighty Summit, and photos of me slaughtering the author with a meat cleaver.
9. Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
Summit alum Gretchen Rubin is once again on the New York Times Bestseller list with her sequel to the Happiness Project, a tome about a year of seeking happiness at home.
10. Oh Happy Day Piñata
Jordan Ferney, the genius behind the website Oh Happy Day, made these teeny eeny piñatas by hand, and they are perfect. You’ll wish you had two so you could pit them against each other.
11. Lands End Canvas Tote
These extra-large natural zip-top tote bags by Lands End are awesome for trips to the pool or beach, picnics, and summering on your fleet of yachts.
12. Daring Greatly Action Book by Behance
Get started on your Life List goals! This notebook is designed to help you plan visually, too.

I want to learn graphic and web design and start my own web designing business.
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Visit all 50 states!
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See a show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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I’ve been working on my life list for the past year (inspired by you, of course!) and one of my greatest hope is to have a baby! Working on it!
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Learn how to make bread.
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Cook a full Thanksgiving meal, including the turkey. I’ll get my chance in 2 months.
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Visit the island in Norway that my grandparents are from.
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Spend a Christmas in Munich.
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Just added: photograph all of the city parks in Denver (because you inspired me with your library portraits and because I LOVE Parks and Rec).
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I’ll share one item that I put on my life list when I was 20 that I have accomplished: Live in another country for a year. I’ve now been living in Canada for five, and even though it wasn’t what I envisioned as to living in another country I love it here!
One new item: I loved Anna Beth Chao’s recent recommendation that you buy yourself one item from your wishlist for five years, and then at the end of five years you’ll have five things you love. It seems like a very consumerist life list item, but it resonated with me. The first item I’m saving up for is a pair of black super high Swedish Hasbeen clogs.
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Throw an “all IKEA products” dinner party.
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Become an amateur beekeeper.
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Row in a race
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I would like to at least once in my life ride a horse at a fast-gallop, as if I am chasing after someone.
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Allow myself to fall in love again…
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Cut my hair into a pixie cut.
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I want to put in a vegetable garden with my 5 year old daughter, Maggie!
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successfully roast a large turkey. and a duck. this year i tackled a chicken – i’m totally on my way.
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Learn to properly use my kitchen knives, so that I can be more convincing when I pretend I am on Top Chef while cutting veggies.
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I want to attend a surf camp for a week, preferably in Central America or New Zealand. But if it HAS to be Hawaii I will take what I can get. 🙂
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Take my children to visit the Australian relatives!
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To do an honest-to-goodness pull-up. It’s achievable, but so, so hard. We put a pull-up bar in the doorway to the bedroom. I’m getting microscopic hairs closer to that bar. And when I do, I’ll be a movie-star-superhero.
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Communicate how important organ donation is with the world. As my son may need another transplant one day.
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Drink wine in Italy with my love.
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Raise chickens in the back yard. Bawk bawk!
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Bike across the Golden Gate bridge and into Sausalito for a picnic.
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I would love to go float in the Dead Sea.
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To play a round of golf in Scotland with my dad. Thank you!
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#28 – Kentucky Derby!
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I have big and small things on my life list. From milking a cow to visiting Shanghai. One thing I really want to knock off my list is witnessing a natural birth, one that doesn’t involve me pushing out the baby.
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I want to do two at once: travel to Alaska & climb Mt. Denali. What a spiritual experience!
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I had a really tough time chosing one thing from life list…
*Quit my job and do something that makes me happier*Have a dog*Go to the RedHead festival in Amsterdam *Hike the AT*Ride a camel to the pyramids*Learn to make flan, and host regular festival of flans*Learn how to french braid*Go to massage school*Walk the Camino de santiago again, with a friend* Get pedicures with 15 different girl friends*Become a regular at a restaurant (checked off!)*
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I have a lot on my life list, but if I had to chose one thing I think I would want to spend a whole summer traveling through Europe.
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I want to buy a house. On a lake. And I want to go there on weekends and for a month in the summers.
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Run a marathon with my sweet daughter.
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Camp in a tent with my husband on my family’s land in Israel.
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Build a chronological, hard-bound book of family photos.
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Eat pineapple in Hawaii!
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#17: Make a turducken!
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I want to attend La Tomatina
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Enter an olympic-style weightlifting contest (as an amateur).
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Swim naked as the sun sets!
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Visit all seven continents.
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Live goal – to spend a summer traveling around Europe with my family.
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See a blue whale!
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I WILL one day see whales from a small dingy. I’ve never seen a whale live and in person and I’m dying to get up close and personal with them and hopefully a few dolphins.
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go on a family vacation! also: go on safari in africa. i think they’d be pretty similiar… 🙂
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learn to play Bach’s Suite #1 for Cello
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I am a girlie girl who made a bucket list when going through cancer treatments when I was 19. #12- Complete the Appalachian Trail. So far 350 miles down! only 1800 to go
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Hike Half Dome.
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