Ever feel like you’re stuck in a rut, struggling to find the discipline to push through life’s challenges? You’re not alone. Many of us face the same hurdles, whether it’s maintaining focus, overcoming setbacks, or simply staying motivated. But what if you could harness the power of discipline to unlock your future and achieve your dreams? That’s exactly what Mike Pressler dives into in this powerful session. He shares raw, real insights on how discipline can transform your life, helping you become resilient and rejection-proof. It’s not just about success; it’s about becoming the best version of yourself and creating a life you love. Mike’s wisdom is a game-changer for anyone serious about personal growth and professional success. Don’t miss this must-see moment that could be the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for. Watch the video below and discover how to turn discipline into your greatest asset.
Video Transcription:
Hey, everybody, this is amazing.
There’s been a lot taught today.
I’m going to give you one word that covers it all.
When you hear somebody tell you something and he comes out of nowhere, goes to RVP at six months, going to promote an rvp, and he wears a wig to work every day, you got to be freaking coachable, man.
I’m coachable.
I’m also coachable.
Keith.
I heard Keith say, tell us what you did before you joined Primerica.
And nobody said it.
I was a French maid, so that worked out perfectly for me.
I was a French maid and I converted over to this.
How amazing was watching frickin Blake Balake, little Balake, do what he just did.
I said to Keith, my son closed on a condo this morning as were on the way up here.
He bought a half a million dollar place in Jersey City on his own.
Didn’t ask for a dime, called us up and said the closing went down.
Dad and mom were happy.
I’m a homeowner.
And I said to Keith, what’s the chances of two mentally ill people like us having two unbelievable sons like that? Right? Ain’t that cool? That’s what this business does, man.
All this stuff that you see, all the money that you see being made ain’t nothing compared to the fact that we get to immerse ourselves and our families in an environment that enables the best of us to come out of us.
Do you understand that? That all this other stuff that you see is secondary to the people and the person that you become and the family that you create because they get to see you becoming your best self.
Does that make sense to you guys? I want to take a minute and tell you that I love you.
I love this team of people.
It is so freaking cool to come to these events and feel like you’re going to a family reunion.
It’s not a business.
Some of you new dudes that you see us walking up to each other and hugging each other and you’re like, what’s going on? Joe Cardino.
I couldn’t love Joe Cardino more if he was my own brother.
That’s how I feel about that guy.
We have announcement.
We’re both divorcing our wives and we’re going to be the first married couple in Primerica.
I’m not sure who’s going to be the partner, but it’s going to work out.
It’s going to work out.
We’re going to work this out.
I want to get serious for one second, which is difficult for me.
But we have a couple in our hierarchy that are not here tonight today by the name of Miguel and Paula Field.
And this is public knowledge and it’s heartbreaking, but they lost their son in May to a tragic car accident.
He was 22 years old.
He passed away.
And it’s.
I have no words to describe the tragedy that must be.
I don’t want to even go there personally to even think of what that’s like.
Some of us think that in the absence of crises, human beings take issues and turn them into crises.
Oh, I would have been here but there was a traffic jam, I had a flat tire.
And it blows you up for three weeks.
Well, this couple went over 700,000 income last week after losing their son in May.
So if you could take one second of your life and your day and you hang your head in prayer for those two people, I would really appreciate it.
Okay, Prayers.
I’m a big believer in prayers.
I got a lot of stuff to talk to you about and I want to let you know there’s a of things that you’re going to hear today.
They’re going to be redundant, redundant, redundant.
And that is because success is successful.
People do similar things.
There’s no secret.
You hear a bunch of stuff over and over again.
And what you find out is that there’s a commonality to success.
And if you start to speak the language of success and you start to listen to the language of the success and you start to duplicate the language of success, you will become successful.
And I wrote some stuff down that has helped me out tremendously and I want to share it with you.
When I got the million dollar ring about seven years ago, Willie and Lorena had just gotten theirs a little bit before.
And by the time we got to speak, they were at $2 million and were at 1 million.
And at a meeting I said, willie and Lorena change diamonds more faster than I change underpants.
It’s on video.
They were at 2.3 million.
Everybody laughed.
I’m like, I went to the bathroom, came back and Willie and Lorena changed the diamond.
I was kidding around.
It happened just now.
They went over to 7.9 million.
I think that could drive you crazy.
How many people? So here’s what I wrote down.
Comparison is the death of joy.
Comparison is the death of joy.
But here’s the follow up to that.
So is the lack of personal effort and succumbing to the disease of not living up to the God given abilities and Your personal expectations for yourself.
That’s me.
I wrote that.
Isn’t that cool? I’m not that stupid.
Comparison is the death of joy.
Why can’t I find a Blake? Why can’t I get somebody six months? Why am I not here? Why am I here a year and I don’t have the same success as that person.
You have no idea why.
God knows why.
What you want to do is go find one of those people.
What you want to do is put yourself in a position to become the best that you could possibly be so that you could be an attractor of people like that.
We have an expression in our business.
You don’t have to have brains on top.
If you have brains on tap.
If you are in this room, you can borrow the stories that you hear about the success that you are hearing about.
I was at a meeting with teammates and somebody came in and now they’re making xyz.
They built a business that replaced their real estate business.
Their successes are your successes and you get to borrow them.
Are you guys all here? Are you guys all right? We were away at the Dominican Republic.
We stayed.
We just got back yesterday and went to a 10 bedroom, 15 bathroom, multi.
I don’t know how much money this place was.
It was 15,000 square feet.
It was magnificent.
We had a butler, we had a chef, we had a maid, we had a bartender, we had a house person.
And the dude who owned the house came to visit and he’s like a billionaire.
And he was sitting and he was talking to me and for some reason he thought he was my peer.
I’m not his peer.
He said to me, we hung out.
He said to me, I said, what do you got coming up next? He goes, well, we’re going to go to Morocco.
I’m going to bring my family at 15 to Morocco.
Then we’re going to go to Tuscany and tour Italy and see some of my homes in Italy.
And then we’re going to go to Brazil.
We’re going to go to Barcelona.
I like to ski.
So we’re going to ski for three weeks and then we’re going to go back to the Dominican Republic, spent two weeks playing golf with our family, go on our yacht, and then probably go back to Italy.
What do you have coming up? And I go, Thanksgiving.
I go, I got Thanksgiving.
You know, we do it at my house this year.
I don’t really like slicing the turkey, so I’m probably going to have.
I’m probably going to go into the pocket, spend the extra bucks and have Market basket, slice the turkey.
Because I’m a little bit too big to slice my own turkey.
No matter who you are, there’s somebody who is better than you financially.
You gotta let that crap go.
This guy’s wife is a world renowned decorator.
She had artwork.
It was their house that we rented.
She had artwork and they had these.
They were calling them geckos.
They had the chameleons climbing around the place.
And one of the paintings she had a gecko on it.
And the gecko took a poop on the painting.
And the painting was worth more than my net worth.
And he laughed at the gecko.
Pooped.
Oh, he pooped on that painting.
You know how humbling it is to have a guy so wealthy that he could laugh at a freaking gecko pooping on a painting that’s worth more than me? And then he had the gecko poop on me, which I thought was a little over the top.
So here’s the thing you gotta do.
Here’s something else I wrote down.
Resilience.
If you want to have one thing that’s a characteristic of success, you need to be resilient.
Resilience is the state of being strong enough to withstand adverse conditions or mistreatment.
The ability to remain steadfast in the face of criticism.
How many of you guys are.
Yeah, baby, they’re charging the stage for me right now.
Unfortunately, they’re four years old.
Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through the mental, emotional, behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
The state of being strong enough to withstand adverse conditions or mistreatment.
The ability to remain steadfast in the face of criticism.
That is the definition of our business.
If you could become rejection proof, if you could realize that people would rather see you fail than have to sit there and now join your business and look at you climb the ladder of success.
Starting living your better life, your best life.
And you had given them a chance to do the same thing and they chose not to do it.
Their only alternative to make sure that they maintain self esteem is by knocking your ass down.
Do not let them do it.
Do not let them do it.
You realize what we do? You realize what we have? We go out into middle America.
Everything that we heard about this damn election in the last two years has been about the pain points of middle America.
Grocery bills out of control.
You go into the grocery store three years ago with 200 bucks and come out with two shopping carts.
Now you go in with 200 bucks and come out with a half a shopping cart.
And nobody listened to them, and nobody had answer for them.
And none of them had anything that they thought they could do about it.
But we had something they could do about it.
We could sit down and do an F and A for them.
We could show them how to reposition their assets to increase their net worth.
We could show them, hey, if you like what I just did for you, guess what.
Come on board.
We’ll mentor you.
You could be our apprentice.
We will pour our lives into you.
We will teach you what we know.
We go to work for you.
We humble ourselves.
We built a business so damn unique that the only way for you to succeed is by pushing others up.
When you look at the rains, watch their teammates talk about, thank you, we couldn’t have done this without you.
That feels as good as it does when you see a grandchild born.
This thing is an amazing business.
You are a part of something amazing, and you need to buy into it.
And they talked about discipline.
I got a couple minutes left.
Everything that everything has been talked about.
I was sitting next to Roy.
He goes, dude, you got a lot of shit there.
I go, I know.
And everything I got sitting in front of me to talk about has already been talked about.
And you know why? Because it’s common traits of leaders and successful people who listen and then duplicate what they hear.
There is not envy.
There’s appreciation.
I always looked at Bill Whittle, and I was like, I could never be that guy.
I could never be that guy.
I don’t have to be that guy.
What I could do is borrow some of the characteristics that I think are special and employ them in my life so that I can have a little bit of what that guy has, Right? What are the things that I thought were really good about him? Well, he works his ass off.
He never stops working.
The guy died in a gym.
Popped up.
The guy was dead, popped up.
I don’t know how the heck he did it.
And then he closes the freaking meeting at the convention like he’s some kind of spokesperson, like he’s a statesman.
Pure will, pure desire, pure work ethic.
You know what else I looked at? Bill widow.
I said, wow, you could have it all.
God, family, business.
God, family business.
So I got to start figuring out how to grab traits from Keith Otto, grab traits from Joe Cardino, grab traits from the naranos, and try my best to put them into my life.
And I’ll tell you as I end on this, discipline is the key to Everything you’re going to get in your future.
Right? Discipline is what gets you what you want.
A powerful why? An emotional driving force.
Something that is so powerful that it pulls you through the nasties that life throws at you.
Right, people? I was in Dominican Republic.
It rained a lot.
We were there with 14 people.
Every one of them not Kirsten, because she’s so sweet.
Every one of them drank their asses off.
And I don’t drink anymore.
I quit drinking three years ago, you know.
Oh, is it easy, Mike? No, it ain’t easy.
No, it ain’t easy.
When I’m watching all the crap go on in the world and I want to just have a bourbon and I don’t do it, the decision not to do it makes me that much stronger.
People look at me and go, what are you on Ozempic? No, I’m not on frickin Ozempic.
I’ve been working out since I’m 14 years old.
I eat one freaking meal a day.
Is that easy for you? Are you the kind of person who’s never hungry? I’m freaking starving 24 hours a day.
I need your freaking hat.
I need my shoe.
But I don’t do it.
You know why? Challenges in your own life make you stronger to face the next challenge.
Everything you do that overcomes a fear or a pain point makes you strong enough to face the next pain point.
It is absolutely up to you.
Everything the autos have gotten in their life comes from giving something to somebody else.
Pay it freaking forward.
Love you guys.
