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SOLD OUT: Tickets for the FINAL Year of WDS

Limited Tickets Available: WDS 2020 On Sale Now

-- UPDATE: NOW SOLD OUT.

Over the past 9 years, 10,000+ attendees representing all 50 states and over 40+ countries have traveled to Portland each summer to rally around the values of Community, Adventure, and Service.

The goal? To learn how to live a remarkable life in a conventional world.

Tickets for WDS 2020 are on sale, right now and I want to make sure one thing is absolutely clear—next year is our ten-year finale, so there is literally no better time to attend.

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WDS 2019 Tickets On-Sale Now: Join Us Next Summer for a Grand Adventure

Link: Join Us in Portland for WDS 2019!

For 8 years, we’ve brought together amazing and remarkable people from all over the world for a summer gathering known as the World Domination Summit (WDS). Over 1,000 people from over 30+ countries will travel to beautiful Portland, Oregon to discuss, "how can we live a remarkable life in a conventional world."

At WDS, each attendee creates their own personalized schedule using our own mobile app to take part in attendee led-meetups, fun activities and adventures, powerful keynotes, and unforgettable parties.

We’re doing it again next summer and if you've been waiting for the perfect time to attend, now is the time. There are only two years of WDS remaining!

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Escape for a Life-Changing Weekend or Build Your Small Business: Two Upcoming Events

As mentioned a few days ago, WDS 2017 is sold out, but you can still register for Academies. These are half-day workshops on a variety of topics, ranging from productivity to wellness and everything in between.

We've noticed that Academies are one of the most popular parts of the WDS experience. You'll learn new skills and make new friends. Oh, and if you're traveling in just for Academies, you won't be the only one—every year there are a lot of folks who make the trek.

--> Check out the lineup and join us in Portland next month!

Whether you're part of WDS or not, here are two other events you should consider attending.

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“Born for This” 30-City Tour Coming Up! Where Should I Go?

Hey everyone! In April 2016 I’ll begin an all-new adventure, and I’d love for you to come along. Post a comment over on Facebook—or fill out this form if you’d like to be fancy—and let me know where I should go.

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Non-Conformity and Adventure in Europe: The “Alive in Berlin” Conference

Last year I spoke at a number of worldwide events, but only one was in Europe. The organizers are bringing it back for another round, and a limited number of tickets are now available.

I like events of this size: not too small, and not too big. If you're in the neighborhood, broadly speaking, or if you're up for an overseas adventure, it’s a great opportunity to connect with like-minded people and learn more personal development.

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Introducing The World Float: Your Chance To Set a WORLD RECORD!

Have you ever wanted to set a world record? Go down in history with a gold star next to your name? Do something crazy and fun that you'll remember forever... or at least until your next world record?

This summer, you have a chance to do exactly that.

We have 3,000 people coming to town in July for the third-annual World Domination Summit. It's our biggest group ever, and WDS is all about doing big things.

Last year we learned of an attempt to set a world record of the longest floating human chain. This record is currently held by a group of Italians, who achieved the record with more than 500 people in 2008.

Last year's attempt to break the record was valiant (see the photos!), but alas—it fell short of the required numbers. That's where we come in.

Life

FYI: Final World Domination Summit Tickets Available on Wednesday

Our little gathering in Portland has grown far beyond our initial expectations (and indeed, even our hopes and dreams). The deadline to be part of this summer's version is ... next Wednesday, January 16.

Life

Leadership Lessons with a View

Australia is one of my favorite countries out of 188 visited so far, and I was thrilled to have an extended stay of five days there last week. I first went to Melbourne to speak at Darren Rowse's Problogger Event, a gathering for bloggers and other fun people from Australia. The event was well produced by Darren and team, with lots of interesting people working on all kinds of projects.

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World Domination Summit 2013: Limited Tickets Now Available

*World Domination, July 2013 Edition* As mentioned on Monday, today's the day—we've just opened up the first public round of registration for #WDS2013. While they last, tickets will be available at the link --> #WDS2013 Registration

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Early Preview of the 2013 World Domination Summit

We've begun secret meetings at World Domination HQ (also known as my house). Field trips have been made to various potential locations (the best field trips always end with Happy Hour). Quote requests have gone out for skywriters and a mechanical bull (long story). We're still in early days, but the time has come: our team has slowly been gathering to plan a small event for next summer.

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On the Road Again: Next Stop, SoCal (and beyond)

Happy Labor/Labour Day! If you're in the U.S. or Canada, I hope you're enjoying the holiday. Everyone else, enjoy the lull in traffic while many people in North America are offline doing other things. As for me, I'm heading back out on the road, flying down to San Diego today and then around the U.S. for a few more tour stops over the next two weeks ...

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The $100 Investment

Have you ever withdrawn $100,000 in cash from the bank? Me neither ... until last week. This post includes a video from last weekend's World Domination Summit, and a brief explanation on why our team invested $100 in each WDS attendee.

A number of people have asked me to share more about the surprise we unveiled at the end of WDS 2012. As mentioned on Thursday, you can read the experiences of many other people who were at WDS all over the internet. (This list will be updated soon, since there are now more than 150 posts.)

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What Happened at the World Domination Summit

I've been having a hard time writing up my experience at the second-annual World Domination Summit last weekend. I feel exhausted, but mostly in a good way. Our team did a fantastic job, with more than 80 volunteers working together to put on an epic weekend adventure, complete with block parties, dunk tanks, keynote sessions, dozens of workshops and presentations, and ... so much more. I'll be going away for a few days to reflect more on the experience, but I don't want to keep you waiting on a recap—so I'll send you to a few of the 100+ reviews and writeups that have been published by others in the past few days.

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World Domination Summit 2012: Early Photo Recap

For the past five days, I've been immersed in a weekend adventure with 1,000 of our closest friends from more than 20 countries. They'll be able to tell the story better than I can, so at some point soon I'll do a roundup of their posts. (Attendees: link your posts to this one or tag them with #WDS.) For now, here are a few photos that might give the rest of you an idea of what our weekend was like ...

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10 Days to World Domination (The Sequel)

There are 1,000 gift bags taking up every available space in my garage—and also in the foyer, on the stairs, and in various other nooks and crannies around the house. The photo above is approximately 5% of them, and doesn't include countless other boxes, hammock stands, furniture, piles of wood (long story), and various items that will all become needed at the same time next weekend.

“If we do this again next year,” Jolie asked me recently, “Can we get a storage unit?”