The Pinnacle of Luxury

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Luxury to one man is held in contempt by another.

I wear the same two sweaters pretty much every day (one sweater per day, not at the same time haha) and frankly I never want to get tired walking from one end of my house to the other.

In most areas of my life, my tastes are rather simple, my aims straightforward.

Then again, this year I’m also selling my Porsche Boxster to buy my first Lamborghini: a 2010 Lamborghini Gallardo.

That’s coming up later though, probably around July. I’m in no rush.

I’d rather know that I can afford it before I buy it, rather than go through all these complicated mental gymnastics wondering whether I can or not.

If you have to do that, you can’t afford it. That’s a simple rule I go by.

Most of what other people would call luxury I couldn’t care less about (other than cars; I do love cars), but there’s one type of luxury I’ll never give up, and that’s the kind that Tim Ferriss is talking about here:

Feeling unrushed. 

Now THAT’S luxury. THAT’S aspirational.

That’s what I’d give up any car in the world for. That feeling of control over your day, control over your time, control over your life.

Freedom is the pinnacle of luxury, I don’t care what’s strapped to your wrist - I want freedom.

And deep down (maybe not even all that deep), I think you do too.

That’s it for today though.

As always, at the bottom of this email I’ll lay out everything I did today to move closer to my Ultimate Vision. This is to keep me accountable and to show you that I’m working as hard as I’m encouraging you to work…

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This was a pretty luxurious day, freedom-wise. I slowed right down, did what I had to do, set myself up to have a tremendously productive week, and spent the rest of my day reading and relaxing.

I’m slowly, every so slowly learning how to rest and repair myself.

What I noticed - and this is stupidly obvious when you think about it for like, a second - is that when I redline my productivity for weeks on end; when I push and push and push, without getting adequate sleep or even taking many breaks to rest and recover, my work suffers, my productivity suffers - everything suffers.

So no more. I’m slowly learning.

Tomorrow, I will work flat-out, and I will drive my goals and projects forward. But when it’s time to rest, I will rest. And in so doing, when I come back to work, I will be able to achieve more than ever before.

So until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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