Timothy Ferriss

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

—MARK TWAIN

Life doesn’t have to be so damn hard. It really doesn’t. Most people, my past self included, have spent too much time convincing themselves that life has to be hard, a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.

People don’t want to be millionaires—they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows

The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000?

Why do it all in the first place? What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?

How do your decisions change if retirement isn’t an option?

What if you could use a mini-retirement to sample your deferred-life plan reward before working 40 years for it?

Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?

the overall lifestyle design recipe—the fundamentals—before we add the three ingredients

the first of the three luxury lifestyle design ingredients: time.

the second ingredient of luxury lifestyle design: income