Apply Upgrade Intelligence to ANYTHING to get equivalent deals on cars, careers, relationships, business, and life
If you're not after the highest quality life experience possible, stop reading.
If convenience and inflexibility are your priorities, you might get lucky, but reality says your odds decrease, and the quality of life experience suffers.
But if you want to live beyond your ordinary means – for the same money or less – this intelligence brief is for you.
MOST PEOPLE APPROACH GETTING WHAT THEY WANT ALL WRONG
They start at the bottom and work up. Coach class to premium economy, premium economy to Business. Toyota to Lexus. Good enough job to a slightly better job. They stop before they reach the peak because they never looked there in the first place.
This is Step 3 of the Upgrade ProcessTM: Options Intelligence. And here's the intelligence move: Start with blue sky, the best possible outcome, then work DOWN based on your flexibility. Not bottom up.
THE BLUE SKY UPGRADE MINDSET
Why not start at the top? Because you'll never discover value inversions if you don't look.
Here's today’s inversion: First Class for HALF the price of Business Class.
A double upgrade.
Most people never see this because they're working bottom up. They price coach ($1,000-ish) or premium economy ($2,000-ish), maybe stretch to Business ($6,000-ish), and never even glance at First Class, thinking it's out of reach at $29,000+.
But the person with Upgrade Intelligence?
They start at the First Class flight experience, see it's typically $29,972, and then find the path to get it for $3,686 round-trip. As you will discover in a moment.
Peak life-experience quality at a valley price. That's the winning combo.
This same intelligence move works everywhere. See what it looks like in travel, then we'll show you how it applies to cars, careers, relationships, and anything in life.
THE LABORATORY: JAPAN AIRLINES FIRST CLASS
The Opportunity: Japan Airlines is one of the few airlines still offering First Class cabins. If you're departing from the U.S., you can find First Class seats to/from Asia on select flights from Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and San Francisco.
The typical cost for one of these First Class tickets outright? A staggering $29,972 round-trip.
But what if you could book the exact same seat for just a fraction of the price? That's not fantasy. That's flexibility meeting intelligence.
Sure, availability is definitely limited and fluctuates. When seats are available, it’s typically close to departure or 300+ days in advance, although random days in between can be found periodically.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Japan Airlines First Class to Asia is available through its partner’s loyalty program, American Airlines, for 80,000 miles and $5.60 in taxes. Business Class runs 65,000 miles and $5.60 in taxes.
No American miles? No problem. By buying miles when they go on sale and by being strategically flexible, these “blue sky” options can be yours.
Just take a look at this screenshot from AA.com. ANYONE can easily buy the miles required…
The airline runs sales on their miles off and on all the time. Right now you can buy up to 200,000 miles for $4,515. That comes to 2.3 cents per mile. Take a look:
You only need to buy as many miles as you need. The more miles you buy, the bigger the discount.
Need even more miles? Just use my unlimited buy-miles strategy.
Flights Operated by Japan Airlines
THIS SAME INTELLIGENCE WORKS EVERYWHERE IN LIFE
The Blue Sky Upgrade Mindset applies elsewhere. Get peak-life experience quality at a valley price through strategic flexibility. For example:
Car Dealership: Walk in asking for 20 custom specifications – exact wheel color, exact trim, exact everything – and they'll quote you $100,000 with a four-month wait. Want the best value? Wait till model year ends, buy something 90% amenable off the lot for half that price. Strategic flexibility on timing and specs = extraordinary value.
Hiring: Most companies hire average talent and stack headcount. Upgrade Intelligence move? Pay 50% more for an A-Player that can give you 200% more output. First Class isn't 33% better than Business – it's exponentially better. Non-linear value calculation.
Career and Relationships: The best possible job might require relocation. The best possible partner might not live in your zip code. Rather have a seven that’s close, or a nine and you have some things to figure out? Strategic flexibility on location = access to the highest-quality life experience.
Most people pay an 'inconvenience tax' – they pay MORE for convenience. You capture that premium by accepting strategic inconvenience.
The pattern: Start with Blue Sky. Find the path, and work down from there. Accept strategic flexibility on ONE dimension. Capture extraordinary value.
THE IDENTITY TRANSFORMATION
Before: "I take what I can get when I need it."
After: "I start with the best possible outcome, find the path, and capture extraordinary value."
For those who know how to play the game, $29,972 First Class seats for around $3,686 round-trip aren't just possible – they're well within reach.
This isn't for the casual traveler. This is for those who love the thrill of flying in the best possible way for the lowest possible price – and are willing to do what it takes to make it possible.
See you up front, in one of these…
