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Today’s episode of Mortgage Beat focuses on Killed in the Line of Duty Loan Protection,” a special debt cancellation benefit created exclusively for sworn Law Enforcement Officers.

To hear the episode, visit the Mortgage Beat podcast page on the Police Mortgage website: https://policemortgage.com/mortgage-beat-episodes/.

#Mortgages #PoliceMortgage #LawEnforcement #FirstResponders #EverybodyGoesHomeLetsGetHomeTogether

Today’s episode of Mortgage Beat focuses on "Killed in the Line of Duty Loan Protection,” a special debt cancellation benefit created exclusively for sworn Law Enforcement Officers.

To hear the episode, visit the Mortgage Beat podcast page on the Police Mortgage website: policemortgage.com/mortgage-beat-episodes/.

#Mortgages #PoliceMortgage #LawEnforcement #FirstResponders #EverybodyGoesHomeLetsGetHomeTogether
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Welcome and thank you, Officer Culianos! Stay safe!

Welcome and thank you, Officer Culianos! Stay safe!Join us in welcoming Officer Anthony Culianos to Nanuet! Officer Culianos is the new School Resource Officer (SRO) at A. MacArthur Barr Middle School. He has been with the Clarkstown Police Department since 2014 and is now part of the #NUFSD family! #newtonanuet ... See MoreSee Less

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Thanks prayers stay safe and well in Jesus name

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Congratulations Lord PLZ keep him safe in this cruel world💙🫡🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙🫡🙏🙏🙏🙏

Welcome,be safe

Thank you!
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Thank you from a Breast Cancer survivor...God survivor...God Bless you all......

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13 hours ago
Hello and thank you, K-9 Vita! Stay safe!

Hello and thank you, K-9 Vita! Stay safe!We are excited to introduce our newest partner in crime-fighting: Meet K-9 "Vita" from the Czech Republic, who specializes in drug detection. Let's give her a warm welcome! #toledopolice ... See MoreSee Less

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Welcome!

Hi there Gorgeous ! Stay Safe and watch over Your Partner / Handler.🐶🖤💙🖤💙

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This is so precious!!!!
Stay safe, K9 Jocko! and K9 Officer Prichard!

This is so precious!!!!
Stay safe, K9 Jocko! and K9 Officer Prichard!🐾👮‍♂️ Exciting Adventures with K9 Jocko! 📝💪

Check out this pawsome pic of K9 Officer Prichard with our incredible K9 Jocko! 🐶⚡️ This dynamic duo just proved that Jocko is more than just an amazing apprehension and narcotics detection K9, he's also an emotional support pup for his handler! 🥰

In this photo, you can see K9 Officer Prichard holding Jocko's paw while typing up a police report. Jocko knows that writing reports can be tough, so he's right there by his handler's side, providing that much-needed support. Talk about teamwork! 👏🙌

We're incredibly grateful to have such a talented and caring K9 like Jocko on our force. He's always ready to lend a helping paw and make a positive impact in our community. Together, K9 Jocko and Officer Prichard continue to keep our streets safe and bring smiles to our faces. Good boy, Jocko! 🐾💙

#k9handler #k9jocko #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #emotionalsupportpup #plainfieldpd #havingfun
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Beautiful Thank You

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What a beautiful picture of a very special moment! Congratulations and thank you both!! Stay safe!

What a beautiful picture of a very special moment! Congratulations and thank you both!! Stay safe!From the New Port Richey Police Department. Like father, like daughter! Officer Negersmith is following the footsteps of her dad, who has spent his entire career in law enforcement. An affinity for policing seems to run in the family. ... See MoreSee Less

2 days ago

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Thanks prayers stay safe and well in Jesus name

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Awesome stat safe 💙

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Be safe and thank you 🙏🙏🙏

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Thank you, #Hero!

Thank you, #Hero!Night side Officer Roman was happy to reunite an important family member with their family tonight ... See MoreSee Less

2 days ago

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Good Bless you

Congratulations!

Congratulations!Congratulations to the South Suburban Association Chiefs of Police 2023-2024 Executive Board Members! #NOBLEProud ... See MoreSee Less

2 days ago
Congratulations! Thank you! Stay safe!

Congratulations! Thank you! Stay safe!Last year these three chose to fill out an application and toss their name into our candidate pool. Jump forward to today, they have completed their Field Training Program and start solo patrol, serving our awesome community. Congratulations to Officer Talg, Officer Frick and Officer Shoemaker. Thank you for choosing #Wausau! ... See MoreSee Less

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Welcome and thank you, K9 Batman and Officer Dillard! Stay safe!

Welcome and thank you, K9 Batman and Officer Dillard! Stay safe!Meet K9 Batman! K9 Batman is a German Shepard mix and is approximately 2 years old. His handler is Officer Dillard and he is one of our new Greene County Jail K9s.

K9 Batman is also featured on our newest Greene County Jail K9 Swag! This apparel can be purchased from The CrackerJack Shack using the link below!

www.crackerjackshack.com/gcsok9

This is a pre-sale. Orders will be produced and shipped after the selling period ends. A portion of every sale goes to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit.
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Looking Good. Now, Go get the Bad Guys and find all those Drugs.

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Welcome! Congratulations on your new job! Stay safe!

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Rest in Peace, K-9 Rico. Thank you for your service, #Hero 
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Rest in Peace, K-9 Rico. Thank you for your service, #Hero
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So very sorry for ur loss💔may he rest in eternal peace over the rainbow bridge🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔

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Thank you for your service. Rest in peace.

RIP Rico

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Congratulations! Thank you! Stay safe!

Congratulations! Thank you! Stay safe!The Lovington Police Department would like to extend a warm welcome and introduce Officer Berenice Vega to our community.

Officer Vega was born in Jerecuaro Guanajuato, Mexico and came to the United States when she was 9 years old. Officer Vega graduated from Lovington High School in 2017 and was granted citizenship in 2018. Officer Vega will begin our Field Training Program and attend the Southeastern New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy at a later date.

We are delighted to have Officer Vega join our ranks at the Lovington Police Department!
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Thank you Sir for your service to your community..... Enjoy your retirement... God Bless you and your family.....

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Thank you, SRO, Private Chestnut! Stay safe!

Thank you, SRO, Private Chestnut! Stay safe!Congratulations to our newly promoted School Resource Officer, Private Chestnut. Thank you for keeping us safe and mentoring our students. We appreciate you!
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The Serial Decision Maker: The Back Story

For me, everything starts with a question. 

Every day – and all day long for that matter – I ask questions of myself and those around me.

I believe that every question has an answer. And, for me, it’s all about the answer.

I believe that questions, particularly those piqued by curiosity form the starting point of every great journey.  A leading question or series of inquiries will always help outline what a journey will be about and if it will be worth taking.

Speaking of questions, how about this one?  If a question begins every great journey, what fills in the path along the way?  The answer is your experiences.

Every experience you have has the power to be great, if not for any other reason than your experiences are uniquely yours.  You have the full ability to characterize and categorize them any way you see fit. You alone can decide whether to think of an experience as good, bad or somewhere in between. 

You can build momentum and confidence from good experiences.  You can create a new strategy or know what you should avoid from bad experiences.  You can draw up a whole new list of questions from experiences that are somewhere in between.

You can derive all of this power from your own experiences as long as you are an active participant in them.  The power of your experiences is only realized when you are paying attention to what is happening in your life and, to the largest extent possible, you are controlling and directing your life.

You realize this power and you gain control through the decisions that you make.

If you are like me and are an active participant in your own life, or aspire to be as such, you have probably already come to understand from where my moniker, The Serial Decision Maker, came:  In order to realize and hold onto my own power and take control of my life, I made the conscious decision early on to ask questions, provide answers, pay attention, weigh options and make decisions on a day-to-day basis.

When you are actively making the decisions that lead to your experiences, you will always learn from them.  When you achieve the result you set out to achieve, you will better understand your strengths and put yourself in a position to succeed in the future by understanding the steps that you took to develop them.

When you inevitably make a mistake or your experience doesn’t turn out the way you drew it up, you will be in a better position to avoid those mistakes the next time you are deciding a similar course of action.

In this sense, your decisions provide you with direction and they define your purpose for taking the actions that you take, thereby deeming you  a “Serial Decision Maker.”

Your ability to ask questions of yourself that will lead you toward the answers that you seek, and most importantly the type of life that you would like to live, will help you to set your own course.  The extent to which you can make decisions that are consistent with this course will have a meaningful and positive influence on how close you get to reaching your goals and fulfilling your potential.

I am no better at predicting the future than anyone else you know.  I certainly do not pretend to know all of the answers and I am not naïve enough to think that one guide or one set of instructions will suit everyone.

Despite many attempts, I have not been able to slow time down.  I have not set any world records.  I am not the strongest person that I know.  I am not the fastest, and I am certainly not the smartest.

What I can tell you, first hand, is that I can attribute any success that I have attained in my life to my own purposeful decision making.  I have always approached my life as if it were up to me to make sure that I lived it to the fullest and I was fortunate enough to realize, at an early age, that my own decision making was the best tool I have to make sure that I achieve my goals and that I fulfill my potential.

When considering a title for my series of articles, I thought about a lot of different possibilities. I settled on The Serial Decision Maker because it is the most inclusive.  Thoughts can be idle. Questions can be pointless. But, when you make a decision, you have incorporated your thoughts and questions, you have deliberated and prepared, and you have reached a conclusion that involves taking action.

My serial decision making has helped me to thoroughly enjoy the totality of my own life’s journey.  There have been steps along the way that I did not enjoy as they were happening, but I was later able to derive some benefit from them so as to ensure that I at least continued my forward progress even during times of pain and adversity.  As I inevitably will encounter difficult times again, I will be a little stronger and a little more prepared from having had these experiences.

My serial decision making has helped me to fully appreciate the good times.  Playing an active role in my achievements has given me a better appreciation for what it took to get there and the reward for the effort that I put forth. 

My serial decision making reminds me of how much I can control and influence, which has been particularly helpful during the times that it felt as though my circumstances were out of my reach and happening regardless of what I was doing or not doing.

My serial decision making has been central to every plan I have drawn up, every goal I have ever set, and every positive result I have ever achieved.

Those decisions also form the basis for every great friendship I have ever enjoyed.  They have been part of every career move I have ever made (or did not make), and they certainly have contributed greatly to the tremendous joy and happiness that I enjoy with my family on a daily basis.

I understand and appreciate that my decision making, especially my priorities and my points of emphasis, are going to be different than yours.

I believe, however, that my own journey and my active participation in it has helped me to identify the key components and common threads that are present in and amongst all purposeful  decision making.

Your own purposeful decision making is uniquely powerful.

For that purpose, I share some of my questions, experiences, decisions, and reflections with the goal that you may also become a Serial Decision Maker.

Scott Arney
Chief Executive Officer
Chicago Patrolmen’s Federal Credit Union

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