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.

Build a house. Maybe not the physical labor part, but the choose a lot, select a floorplan, determine every finish part.
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There are so many things…but skydive is definitely up there. A friend did it a few weeks ago and I was awfully jealous.
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I want to give a keynote address. And have curly hair.
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Have a picnic in Paris!
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Live in another country for a year
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Life list: Take the Egypt “honeymoon” that my husband and I always wanted.
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Travel to Hawaii to visit my pen pal of more than 15 years.
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Go to Italy! The plan is to go in 2016 for my daughter’s high school graduation.
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Visit France– all different parts of it!
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I want to take a long vacation on a sailboat with my partner and kids.
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I would like to start an animal anti-cruelty program in the local schools. Lately we have had a run of children torturing animals and I’d like to use my advocacy and teaching skills for good.
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Learn to swim – really swim — so that I can swim laps in a real swim cap.
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Participate in a flash mob!
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I’d like to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games!
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I want to learn finish carpentry and build my own chair.
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sleep in a tree house
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Take classes to become a doula!
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I want to run another marathon…this time without stopping to walk or vomit.
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Bring my child and husband to Europe – France for me, Ireland for my husband!
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sew a quilt for each of my children
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Run a half marathon!
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My life list currently has one line item: Write a life list
We all start somewhere, right?
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I want to complete a triathlon (mini tris count).
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Participate in a volunteer activity in another country (like Habitat, or teaching ESL).
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go on an african (photo) safari
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Have a book published!
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Visit and walk through lavendar fields.
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I want to vacation in an over water hut in Bora Bora. I mean, I WILL vacation in an overwater hut in Bora Bora.
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Speak at Camp Mighty!
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Hmmm…
Just one thing from my Life List? That’s hard to choose. But since I have to:
#24 “Remember to tell them you love them.”
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Visit all seven continents. I’ve got all but Antarctica.
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Learn to shoot a gun. Not that I want to shoot anything dead, just want to yell “Yippee ki-yay” while shooting it into the air.
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Cheese and wine in Paris with my best friend.
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An item on my Life List is to go one year where I send a snail mail birthday card to every friend I have. I’ve missed the boat for this calendar year, but I think I can start stockpiling cards now for next year!
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Finish my PhD and become a professor!!
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learn to speak German
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I’d like to start my own cooking classes.
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To sweep my fiancé off to the airport and take him on a surprise vacation. It’s going to be awesome!
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Live in San Francisco!
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Part 1: Learn to ride a motorcycle
Part 2: Ride around India on a Royal Enfield for a year.
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#5 on my list: speak at a blog conference.
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Run 100 Marathons
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Life List #47: Bake a successful pie from scratch. It never seems to work out right. Hopefully this holiday season I can finally have success!
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Own my own home. This is a big one, makes me sigh with anxiety, but something I REALLY want.
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Host a children’s community art show
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learn to walk a tightrope!
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Climb a mountain and I did it last summer – summiting Mt Elbert in Colorado – the highest of the 14teeners. Since then I’ve climbed 4 more and I love it!
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Go to a Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan.
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Ride in a hot air balloon!!
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I would like to stay overnight at James Turrell’s Roden Crater someday.
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