Colin Powell provides 13 rules for success, including maintaining a positive outlook, having a vision while also demanding excellence, sharing credit for successes, avoiding letting fears or others' opinions influence your decisions, and not letting your ego be tied to your positions. The rules advise remaining calm, checking small details, moving past anger or adverse facts, being careful what you wish for as you may achieve it, and maintaining optimism that challenges aren't as bad as initially thought.

1. Colin Powell’s
Rules
13
Perpetual optimism
is a force multiplier.
12
Don’t take counsel of
your fears or naysayers.
11
Have a vision. Be
demanding.
10
Remain calm.
Be kind.
9
Share credit of
success.
8 Check small things.

2. 7
You can’t make someone
choices. You should not let
someone else make yours.
6
Don’t let adverse facts stand
in way of a good decision.
5
Be careful what you
choose. You may get it.
4 It can be done.
3
Avoid having your ego so
close to your position that
when your position falls,
your ego goes with it.
2 Get mad, then get over it.
1 It ain’t as bad as you think. It
will look better in the
morning.
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