I spent the last week in Las Vegas for a convention with the Entrepreneurs Organization.  I have been a member of that organization for the last 5 years and it (my membership) has changed my life.
We call our conventions ‘Universities’  we have speakers from throughout the world…but the best of them are always fellow members with crazy stories of success or failures.  There are also the contacts and the stories of all the other members who are with you at the conference.  Those are the stories you don’t want to miss.  The stories are not about success and look at me…they are the true stories of trenches… The hardships, the filing of bankruptcies and obviously the story of the guys who got back up to start again.  I hear this story over and over. 
If any of you are reading this and are entrepreneurs…have a look at