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.

To be a “runner”.
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Buy and be comfortable in a cute bikini
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Cosplay at a comics convention like Dragon*Con. That just looks like so much fun.
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I am going to zipline. Somewhere cool. And survive. I think? 🙂
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Go to italy with my husband and daughter.
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Make a quilt (never attempted before), hopefully with some of the old fabrics in my mom’s collection of remnants. She left this life in February 2011, and I think this would be a lovely (and cozy) was to hold her close.
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Take piano lessons again.
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I want to learn to sand and refinish yard sale furniture so well that people will ask where I bought those shelves, hoping to get an identical set.
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Adopt a child. Am at the earliest stages of putting the pieces together, still hoping to meet the right partner to do it together – but opening up to the possibilities regardless.
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Edit a feature-length documentary that goes out into the world.
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I want to get my 3 and 6-year-olds to Japan to meet their Aunties and Uncles. It would be the best to be able to share this experience with my mother-in-law. She’s so proud of these kids!
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I want to be able to do a handstand again in yoga!
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Yoga retreat in Bali.
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Italy. To see the hillsides, and make pasta, and sip wine while I watch the sunset. Bliss.
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Here’s my life list #17: Cross the ocean on a steam liner (like the Queen Elizabeth II).
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Take my kid camping in the San Rafael Swell. Wahoo!
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I would like to find a new direction for my life and get out of the rut I’m stuck in.
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I want to make my grandmother’s cinnamon rolls so often that I can do it without a recipe.
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Pay off my niece’s student loans once she’s graduated from college.
Why not just pay for college for her? Because although it was tough I learned more about myself and life in the years that I put myself through school. I took my education seriously and made a point of appreciating the thousands of dollars I was spending to get it. Walking across that stage to get my diploma was the proudest moment of my whole life.
I want her to have that. And then I want to relieve the burden of all that debt for her.
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I want to eat my way across Spain.
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I want to learn to surf!
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I want to run a full marathon.
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Speak Italian fluently.
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I want to go to mighty summit actually! And live overseas for awhile, hopefully while my daughter is still young enough to do it with us!
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I want to run a half marathon before I turn 35. I am 32 now, and am signed up for my first 5K in November…
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Plant a veggie garden that survives!
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To learn to play Bach’s Cello Suite 1.
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I want to learn how to woodwork well enough to make furniture.
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Read the entire bible!
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Love the prizes! I will be certified as a yoga instructor. someday. It’s on my list. Namaste.
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Learn to speak Spanish fluently!
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scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef!
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I would like to sell a piece of my art to a stranger.
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I want to scuba dive in Australia!
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Write 10 short stories and get one published in a literary magazine.
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Homebrew. It’s a whole language and science to learn, but opening a bottle with friends on the back porch would be so worth it (even if the first batch is terrible – imagine the stories for years to come)!
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A life list item of mine is to zipline somewhere really exotic!
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Live in Europe for a year!
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Nap in a hammock, in the shade of a peaceful summer day.
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See the freshly-hatched baby sea turtles make their trek across the beach to the ocean.
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Open my own party supply shop.
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Make a point to take photos of my children doing everyday things.
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Start teaching yoga!
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give birth to a second child!
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One of my life goal is to comfortably support myself by doing what I love (a combination of things that are all arts-related).
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I want to become a mom. Hopefully I’ll fulfill this dream soon!
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#10: Get to London.
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I want to visit every National Park. I’ve made a pretty good dent in this list this summer.
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Write and illustrate a children’s book with my husband.
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Document our family history from my master storyteller uncles (in their 70’s).
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