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 have a family camping trip…in the backyard.
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short term goal: carve out “me” time that isn’t at the grocery store in hopes that I can get back to creative activities that I love – knitting, sewing, gardening
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Live near the water.
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My life list is to visit the places I want to write novels about…Paris & NYC.
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Visit the places where my grandparents were born (England and Italy). Hopefully in 3 years!
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I want to leisurely travel through Europe with my husband someday . . . giving us the romantic honeymoon we still haven’t quite managed to take yet! (Hey, it’s only been 18 years!!)
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I want to visit Australia and go on an outback adventure.
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Backpack across Europe with my husband and children
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Own a goat, or several, preferably on a small farm.
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To buy a house 🙂
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Have enough control over my business and life to say ‘no’ more often.
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To learn to/develop the courage to do headstands and handstands in yoga!
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Someday I will backpack through Europe with my camera and a great pair of sandals.
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Drive a convertible down the coast of California.
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I want to be a radio talk show host. Terry Gross is my hero.
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Learn how to use my camera’s manual setting.
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I want to go to Wimbledon to watch Federer play.
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Fully fund Faith Studio for 2012-2013!
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Improve my memory keeping – take more pictures & write it all down – because they grow too fast and no matter how hard I try, I just can’t remember every magical moment.
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To pay it forward more often. I want to brighten someones day by doing something small like pay for their coffee, or lunch. I don’t have the income to do big grand gestures, but the little ones can mean more when they catch you by surprise. Thank you!
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Tour all of the baseball parks during a summer, ending in Boston to watch them play the Yankees.
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I want to travel far away with my family.
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I want to visit a country for every year of my age. I have a bit of catching up to do at the moment, though!
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Learn seven poems by heart to recite whenever and wherever the time is right.
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I want to work in education and I’m doing everything I can right now to do so!
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Portage through Algonquin Park
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I want to get my photography business jump-started and on a roll.
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Bring my Mum to Prince Edward Island where her beloved “Anne” books were situated.
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I want to learn small engine repair.
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Eat my way through New Orleans!
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Amazing prizes! A life list item for me it to love my home – i.e. either attack or make peace with the piles. Have only things I love around me and get rid of the clutter. Have mementos of adventures,pictures of the people of I love and beautiful outdoor and indoor spaces to entertain my favorite people (who actually don’t care what the spaces look like- they are awesome). This is a work in progress!!
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To take a train through the Rocky Mountains – and I just crossed it off my list last week!
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One item from my Life List is “learn to sail.” I have been working on this over this summer, and there are now two boats that I can competently sail on my own. However, I’m not crossing it off quite yet, because I think there is a lot more to learning to sail than getting a rating on two small boats. Learning is a process, after all.
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Catch a salmon…WITH MY BARE HANDS (or, just with a pole, whatever) 🙂
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Have a conversation in Spanish in a Spanish-speaking country.
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Add to my already big family through adoption!
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Hike the Grand Canyon!
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Travel internationally alone.
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Eat and drink my way through Spain with my husband.
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I want to visit all the U.S. National Parks!
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Run a marathon and not get picked up by the bus.
First attempt in under 40 days…
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I’m working on one this weekend-to go on a trip with my college girlfriends!
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Hole up in a cabin in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. to see the leaves change with a big bunch of my friends and family. Peace is great to have out in the woods, but there is beauty in a chaotic jumble of happy people too.
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Moleskine weekly planner in black leather!
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Perfect a breakdancing move. 😉
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I will run a 50 mile race one day.
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I want to try roller derby! I think it would be awesome.
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I’d love to take my kids on road trips as they grow and travel to places in the US that I’ve never been.
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Be completely off seizure medication so that I can breastfeed my future babies.
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Visit Australia!
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