Muhammad Ali once said, “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit!’ Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” I have met very few high-performing recruiters and hiring managers who… Love picking up the phone and making an uncomfortable call. Love getting rejected by a recruiting prospect who’s marginally successful. Love being stood-up on a recruiting appointment. Love initiating a meaningful recruiting dialog and later getting ghosted. Love setting and protecting a recruiting time block in their schedule. Love doing the tedious work of updating their recruiting database and building a prospect list. Love doing all the other proactive tasks that lead to recruiting success. Instead, high-performers focus on the results and personal wins they seek. This could be increasing your personal income, defeating a competitor, experiencing the accomplishment of growing a successful office, or seeing the light in an agent’s eyes whom you’ve helped reach remarkable success. Everyone wants to be a champion, but few are willing to make the sacrifices to become one. Are you up to the challenge?