HAPPY NEW YEAR and…here's to sweeping up the old before making the new“A postulate is a decision you make to yourself or to others. You make one, then afterwards conditions change and you make a second one. This makes the first one wrong. You make a postulate as cause and then, by having lived through some instants of time, become an effect of your own cause.A computer could not work if you kept leaving its totals on the calculator for the next problem. That is what you do with decisions. They have to be made. Sweep them up before making more. It is a new method of thinking and one that keeps you happy. No need to be afraid of making decisions. Simply sweep up old decisions. You make New Year’s resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren’t weak willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.”Handbook for Preclears