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 hike through iceland!
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Make a rainbow birthday cake!
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Foster a child.
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Skate on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada.
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Get my Divemaster certification and see where it takes me.
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Learn how to snorkel! This is on my list especially because deep water is scary and this item terrifies me. Which means, I need to do it.
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I want to learn to play the piano. Not fancy, not concertos or anything (is that a thing? on the piano? I have no idea); I just want to be able to sit down and whirl out a ditty. I imagine like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day,” only without the being-stuck-in-a-timeloop-purgatory part.
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Take a portrait photography class!
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I want to learn how to swim. I’m a 31 year old mother of three little ones… two of whom are becoming excellent swimmers, who wish for their mother to jump into the pool with them.
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To be paid very well for creating art with ease, joy and glory!
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Most recently added to my list: Build core strength!
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My young family is growing up and my role will be changing! In the next year I want to reactivate my nursing license and re-enter the workforce after 5 years. Exciting and scary to re-re-invent myself!
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I’m going to figure out a way to honor the memory of my father, daunting task though it may be.
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I want to milk a cow… there are other things on that list, but this one made my dad laugh.
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I’d like to learn to ride horses well enough to be able to do a multi-day journey on them.
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Spend a month in Ireland!
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Attempt to relearn the piano — and get an upright piano foe my lessons!
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I want to visit Amsterdam!
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Visit Paris
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Part of my life list is to be self-employed again. I love being my own boss.
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Visit Jordan is on my list and I should be doing it next year!
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Write, illustrate, and publish a children’s book.
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I want to make my living as an artist, making stuff
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Current project from the life list that’s being done is “make a blanket”. I’ve taken up quilting.
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see the northern lights!
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Visit 100 roadside oddities. (I am at 94 so far – only 6 more to go!)
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Move to Portland and buy a house. I’m on track for next year.
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To go to Prince Edward Island with my girls.
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See the elephants walk along 34th Street when they get into town for the circus.
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I really want to learn to play tennis so that I can play with my daughters
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To really become a member of my community. I’ve lived in a lot of different places, and while it’s lovely having friends all over the place, it leaves me feeling a little bit adrift when I’m at my (current) home. There’s a chance we may move again in a year or two… but I really like where we are now, and I’d like to feel like I’m truly a part of it, instead of just passing through.
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I’d like to spend more time with friends this year. I feel like I’ve let work take all my energy for things and have neglected time with important people in my life. I’d really like to change this as I start growing my family and want my dear friends to be a part of my new family’s life.
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fall in love!
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Give my sons and daughter ballroom dance lessons so they can move gracefully at weddings etc.
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I want to hang more artwork in my home and would love for at least one piece to be something I made!
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Ride a bicycle in Bali.
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Learn to play all the parts of a Ramones song. Thanks for all the great inspiration!
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Take my mom to Ireland. We’re planning this for next year!
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Write cookbook for my kids of original/family recipes.
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To visit Machu Picchu.
And I’m doing it this November!
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Run a half marathon. And maybe beyond!
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SO MANY! Learn a second language, actually print my kids photos and put them in albums, see Greece, LOVE and PLAY hard everyday til it hurts!!!!
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I have many on my list, thanks to you! My most recent addition is to learn to sail. Yep. And I can’t wait!
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Visit the redwood forest.
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I don’t aspire to be an Actress with a capital A. However, I really really want to be in either a costume/period piece just for the dress-up fun or I want to be in a movie where they use your childhood photos as the character’s childhood photos. I don’t know why, but I love that…perhaps originating from the Growing Pains montage.
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Some day I’ll own chickens!
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I want to go to Israel.
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Make a souffle!
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Paddle out (with confidence) to a 7 foot wave…
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Learn to play saxophone.
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