It is easy to live only seeing day to day, but by building a life list, you can keep all your desires in front of you and knock them down one by one.

To sum up the final chapter in my series - The Cold, Hard Realities of Power and Success - I thought I would summarize a few of the characteristics of a Successful and Powerful business person, and how you can apply them. You got your vision, you pinpointed your abilities, you’ve made it through tough times and gained some serious wisdom and experience, so now its time to put that into action and keep your footing.

We have all experienced our fair share of baggage claim frustration. Waiting for your belongings at the airport can be absolutely maddening, but what is worse is attempting to locate them on a conveyor belt full of look-a-likes. Here are a few things to consider the next time you’re on the market for new travel gear.

Our lives these days are fast. We have phone calls to answer, emails to read, a crawl on the bottom of the TV screen to follow, and Lance Armstrong or Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter updates constantly coming at us. There really doesn’t seem to be a dull second does there? Well for a week, one of our writers cut a basic need for survival out of his daily existence, and lived to tell about it. Yes, for one week, there was no TV.

Drinking and driving is a risky subject to say the least, and extremely stupid as well. We all get in situations though, where we are going to do it no matter what. It may be to get the car home, it may be to get the girl home, or it may be that you have work early in the morning, but whatever the case, we all will probably get behind the wheel with more than the .08 that the Golden State of California allows. Read on and we’ll show you how you can as safely as possible get home. Again, we at Freddie think that drinking and driving is incredibly stupid and do not endorse or condone it, but we know it goes on, so here you go.

Learning to set boundaries is a vital part of learning to communicate in a direct and honest manner. It is impossible to have a healthy relationship with someone who has no boundaries, with someone who cannot communicate directly, and honestly. Learning how to set boundaries is a necessary step in learning to be a friend to ourselves.

Perseverance can be a peculiarity to a lot of folks because it is something that is very hard to get accustomed to. But perseverance is a trait that you cannot get by without. Go ask any successful person if it is an easy road to the top, and unless they are a liar I can guarantee that every single one of them will tell you there were a few times where they were hanging on by a thread, ready to give up everything.