The new beginning now becomes the focus of the curriculum.

This week we will devote our time to Chapter 30 and the Rules for Decision. We will start with the introduction and cover as much of the following 17 paragraphs as we can at a comfortable, unhurried pace.

From Rules for Decision:

This is your major problem now. You still make up your mind, and then decide to ask what you should do. And what you hear may not resolve the problem as you saw it first. This leads to fear, because it contradicts what you perceive and so you feel attacked. And therefore angry. There are rules by which this will not happen. But it does occur at first, while you are learning how to hear. T-30.I.3.

Your day is not at random. It is set by what you choose to live it with, and how the friend whose counsel you have sought perceives your happiness. You always ask advice before you can decide on anything. Let this be understood, and you can see there cannot be coercion here, nor grounds for opposition that you may be free. There is no freedom from what must occur. And if you think there is, you must be wrong. T-30.I.15.