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.
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I really, really want to overcome my intense fear of flying. I would love to take a trip someplace special with our son when he graduates from high school next year.
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Witness the total solar eclipse of 2017 with my husband and daughter.
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I want to see the northern lights!
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I would like to teach my son all the made up songs my dad taught me as a child.
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See the aspens change in the Rocky Mountains.
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Write and perform a song at an open mic night.
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I would like to make grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for my nephew and niece (sister in law is due end of October with my niece, so it will be a few years) and have them “drink” the soup out of the same mugs their father and I drank soup from as kids (Strawberry Shortcake and Huckleberry Finn)!
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Learn to speak Italian fluently.
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Be a part of the revolution! as a spokesperson and an activator of sustainable, smart, design thinking + making.
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Read the Bible cover to cover
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I wanna see Africa!
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Learn to make handmade pasta……..in ITALY!
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kiss a stranger, call him handsome.
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On my life list? Bike the Hiawatha trail. Thanks for encouraging me to dream.
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attend a writing retreat in taos, new mexico.
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Raise my boy to be a respectful man.
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I was going to say – live abroad, but then I clicked on the Oh Happy Day link and saw that Golden Gate Bridge dinner party and now I really want to plan (and hopefully execute) a dinner party somewhere awesome like that!
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I’d like to make a perfectly delicious and beautiful birthday cake for someone I love.
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i’d like to learn to play the cello. well, actually i’d prefer to just be good at playing the cello without the practice that’s required.
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Be Present. REALLY present and conscious. I start each day trying to achieve this and somehow….well, it just doesn’t happen. LOL
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Finish an entire bottle of nail polish. It’s the little things. 😉
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I want to give a speech without throwing up first.
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Simple, but attainable, I’d like to learn to play the piano
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Run and finish the Big Sur Marathon.
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Take my kids on a cross-country camping trip.
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Demand a raise. Quit if I don’t get it.
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Find someone to love.
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My life list changes often and grows exponentially, but I would die to go to Europe.
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Yoga teacher training. 🙂
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I’d like to open an orphanage in northern India, train compassionate and capable local women to run it, and, after turning it over to them, write a novel or memoir about the experience so that others can experience the hospitality, exuberance, and strength of spirit I know I will see during that endeavor.
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Watch a concert in Vienna, Austria.
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To finally finish my PhD.
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Learn all four parts of Bobby McFerrin’s 23rd Psalm (For my Mother), record them, then save the result for my daughter and myself.
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Take a train ride through Mongolia.
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Ride a camel in Egypt
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Eat fattoush in Egypt.
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Find my calling
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travel the entire US rail system & visit all the amazing historic depots
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Reach my goal weight!
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Become a foster parent.
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Go skydiving–gonna happen in less than two weeks!
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The Mighty Life List is mighty inspiring! One item on my list is to live in another country and fully immerse myself in its culture.
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Adopt a rescue great dane, take them for long walks every day and treat them to lots of snuggles.
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Well, I have many things on my life list to choose from – but I have to put the one that is most apropos – attend the Mighty Summit.
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Speak Spanish on vacation! I.e., go on trips to Spanish-speaking countries, preferably with my little brother. No reason to let 10 years of language instruction get rusty on the shelf.
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Go to Iceland – it looks like one of the most fantastic places to visit.
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Go rafting/hiking down the Colorado river with my mom, ending in the Grand Canyon!
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I want to create a special ritual for my family that hopefully they’ll want to continue with their loved ones some day.
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Donate my hair for cancer. Just a few more inches to go!
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give each of my family amazing, thoughtful, perfect christmas presents one year.
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