Stone Tablets In The Second Decade Of The Twenty First Century. Have you ever wondered why we teach Religion to our very young?

Can things that happened two thousand year or so ago have meaning in the second decade of the twenty first century. Can things I learned starting more than fifty years ago and ideas I first published about twenty five years ago have meaning today?

I don't remember when I started Sunday School, it had to be sometime before four 1952 or ‘3. I do remember among all those wonderful stories there was always a Moral. Along came Mosses and the Ten Commandments. The only thing I could relate to was Honor thy father and mother.

We learned so much that seemed so irrelevant.

There was all that begatting, and the prohibitions, the thou shall nots. The only thing we knew was that it was something old people did. We never believed we'd ever be that old. It would be another decade before we'd discovered that girls didn't have cooties!

We couldn't relate to this stuff!

As we aged and various temptations arose,

we found that we'd long ago unknowingly decided how we'd behave.

Some where along the line I discovered I been blessed, I grew up surrounded by truly great people, my Parents, my Grandparents, my Great Grandparents, and their friends. They'd all left their imprint on me.

It wasn't until about twenty two years ago as I was approaching forty that I even analyses why I was who I was. At the time I managed several Loan Originators making some really bad decisions. I couldn't relate to these people. Worse, I didn't know why.

After much sole searching, I came to some answers. I realized why Sunday Schools, Parents, Grandparents, Great Grandparents, and Friends teach the young so much they can't relate to at the time! My decisions in life were formed well before, the questions were ask. All those Great people had influence me. I was making decisions on how I'd behave before I faced temptation! In the Marines we learned our "General Orders" a Marines "General Orders" establish how he behaves when there's no one around to give specific orders.

It was an embarrassing epiphany!

We make our hard decisions based on the rules we'd we accepted for our self long before facing temptation.

There is no harder decision for real estate people than doing what's right when the money is on the table. Good people who've never faced or considered such decisions can make mistakes.

These were the same good people I had hired, they simply lacked the guidance. They need "General Orders" or Commandments. They needed to decide how they would behave before facing temptation.

The next day I first published what have become known as Bill's Rules.

I. Thou shall protect thy license above all.

If I had been writing for real estate agents My Rules would be:

I. Thou shall protect thy license above all.