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.

Walk the Camino de Santiago.
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Spend a fortnight wandering through the Scottish Highlands.
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I recently created my life list and have started ticking things off (finally learned to make my own sushi!)
my travel list is topped by Russia, Morocco and Cinque Terre in Italy
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32. Have a Hitchcock movie screening party.
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Spend New Years in a different state (I’m in Ohio right now). I’m in school and NYE here has always been a disappointment, I’m itching to be somewhere different to bring in 2013.
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I want to do a real pull up. I’m not there yet but I’m actively working on it… Soon… soon…
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I want to open a bake shop/cafe, where all the decor inside was created by me.
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Learn to crochet and make beautiful things!
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I want to go to Europe!
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Become fluent in a second language while living abroad.
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Live in Paris for 6 months
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life list #whoknows… fall in love!
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Jump out of an airplane. And swim my local pier to pier race. and jump out of an airplane.
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My life list? Keep an orchid and have it thrive; make tonic water from scratch; and sail the mediterranean.
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Be happy naked.
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Become fluent in Italian!
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Travel, travel, and more travel! I would love to plan a cross country road trip for my family- all generations, both sides – not only would it be great to explore this country, but the time spent with family would be wonderful.
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I’d like to rent a villa in south of France… ride a bike to the boulangerie… buy fresh baked baguettes and sip wine….
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Run a half marathon barefoot.
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Travel around the world with my family.
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Write something and get paid actual money for it. (Which means writing more, and submitting more.) Someday.
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My (new!) husband and I have a passion for capturing stories with our cameras. He shoots video and I shoot photos. We’d love to capture stories of missionaries around the world so that their supporters can share their experience!
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I need to put my passport to work and get the family out of the country before they hit college and go backpacking across Europe on their own 😉
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While I currently bake & cook for a great restaurant and work with the best people, I would like to be able to make the things that I love most for people every day. Fresh, all home made & completely from my heart.
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Get tenure!
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Cook an amazing meal for a large group of friends from around the world with my Turkish husband. Turkish food with an American twist for all of those who couldn’t make it to our wedding!
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Graduate from an Ivy League university – nearly done. UPenn MSW class of 2013!
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I want to photograph the northern lights from Iceland.
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I would like to start taking dance classes again. I miss the excitement of new ballet slippers.
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One of my goals was to run a 5K before I turned 40… I’ve now run 6 of them (through the past 3 years) and will turn 40 in December. One of my OTHER goals, written at the same time, was to run a 5k AFTER I turn 40. I feel like I’m on track to meet that one, too! *fingers crossed*
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I gave birth to our beautiful sweet little daughter, June. Wiped out, in need of recovery, but oh so happy
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I want to deliver a baby naturally, no drugs.
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Become a Dr. Almost there.
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To start a family with my husband.
In 7 months that will come true! 🙂
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be published in the new york times!
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I want to become a jewelry maker and finally fun a 5k.
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Learn to sew my own clothes.
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Move to Paris for a year. While living and working in Paris, I should host a dinner for the hundreds of others on this list who would like to be visiting or living in France with me.
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I’m gonna take my daughter on a museum tour from New York to Boston.
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On my life list: bravely translate my dreamy ideas into gorgeous quilts!
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What a lovely gift bag! I would love to accomplish a mentoring/training program for local aboriginals to train as chefs (like me) to have better positions within oil company sites. I feel like it’s an overwhelming project, time to break it down into baby steps. Thanks for being so inspiring Maggie!
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See the Aurora Borealis with my husband
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Sweet gentle Jesus, reading these was so much fun! I dream of attending the Olympics. Winter or summer, any sport, I don’t care. To the Games of the Olympiad!
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– officiate a wedding
– attend Camp Mighty or the Mighty Summit
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What a lovely and inspiring assembly of goodies!
I want to become “fluent” enough in Cantonese to be able to communicate with my mother-in-law. She is such a sweet lady and I’d like to be able to tell her so without relying on someone else to translate. 🙂
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I want to kiss the man I truly love with everything I’ve got under the moonlight by the Eiffel Tower.
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Learn to surf, at a women’s surf camp in Mexico.
Which really requires me to overcome a near drowning and learn to swim. Properly.
I love the water, and I want to feel strong in it, safe in it, confident with it.
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Learn to sew and make clothes for my daughters.
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I would love to live in Iceland! Even for just a year 🙂
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I’ve got two:
Start my journey towards a Master’s degree, and
Find a man who will love me as much as I love him.
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