Mountain Views News          Saturday, November 28, 2015

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HEALTH & WEALTH

 Mountain Views News Saturday, November 28, 2015 


THE JOY OF YOGA

It’s the Most Wonderful 
Time of the Year! 
You are cordially invited to join us in 
celebrating the 
joyous Holiday Season at our 
Holiday Open House! 
Admire the beauty of the colorful 
decorations as you sample traditional 
holiday hors d’oeuvres and beverages. 
Catch the holiday spirit as you listen 
to the sounds of the season with 
special entertainment. 
Stay a while and get to know the residents, 
families and staff — see why they call our 
Community “home.” 
Saturday, December 5, 2015 
11:00 a.m.—2:00p.m. 
8417 Mission Drive 
Rosemead, CA 91770 
(626) 287-0438 
Lic 198601803, 198601804 
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A DAILY GRATITUDE PRACTICE

“Gratitude is an 
opener of locked-up 
blessings.

” Marianne Williamson 

 Yes, indeed! Gratitude not only enriches our 
lives but the people around us reap the benefits too. 
People respond and gravitate to the person who is 
grateful. Good health follows gratitude as well. 
It is an all natural boost to the immune system. 
The ‘filled up’ feeling permeates our emotional 
disposition and replenishes and rejuvenates our 
energetic body. We are stronger. 

 So how do we ‘get grateful’? How can this feeling 
become a more permanent part of who we are and 
not a temporary feeling? A daily gratitude practice 
is how. Here are my top three ways to stay grateful: 

 

 1. Keep a gratitude journal or make a gratitude 
list. When we feel the world has cut us short in 
some way, we need to recall all the positives in our 
life. Most of us have so many things and people to 
be grateful for, we cannot even record them all in 
one sitting. Each day we may appreciate something 
new or surprisingly, appreciate the seemingly bad. 

 

 2. Write those thank you notes. And mail them. 
So much communication is done electronically, 
a ‘like’ on Facebook, emails, text messages. 
There’s no substitute for a received- in-the-mail 
handwritten thank you note. 

 

 3. Give back. How much has been freely given to 
you? Go back to the attitude of giving for fun and 
for free...it can change your entire outlook. 

 People who are grateful take better care of 
themselves. On that note, hope to see you in class! 

Namaste and love, 

Keely Totten


BUSINESS NEWS & TRENDS

FAMILY MATTERS By Marc Garlett


THE FINAL LOG-OFF: 
WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR 
DATA WHEN WE DIE?

Take a moment and consider how much of your life you 
live online. If you are like me, you bank, pay bills, make 
purchases, connect with friends, and conduct business 
online (in fact, I even met my wife online)! Now think 
about all the digital assets you have accumulated - account 
information, passwords, emails, photos, videos, etc. But 
what happens to all of it when we die? 

Since you will not be around anymore, you may not care. 
But chances are good your loved ones will. There have been 
many stories of families trying to get access to a deceased 
family member’s photos and emails on social media sites - 
in fact, there have been so many requests that most of these 
sites now have policies in place for family to gain access or 
deactivate online accounts:

 Google. Google features an Inactive Account Manager, 
which allows users to choose to name a beneficiary for 
their online account activity on all Google sites (which 
includes YouTube) or to delete it after a set amount of time 
passes during which the account is inactive.

 Facebook. Facebook allows family members to request 
that a decedent’s account be deleted or provides them with 
an option to “memorialize” the decedent’s page so it stays 
up, but is essentially frozen in time. Facebook requires you 
to provide a death certificate or a published obituary to 
accomplish this.

 LinkedIn. LinkedIn provides an online form to remove 
a deceased member’s profile page from the site. You will 
need to furnish the member’s name, email address, the 
URL to their LinkedIn profile and some other information 
as well as a link to their online obituary.

Twitter. You must email Twitter a request to delete the 
account of a family member who has passed and mail 
them a copy of the death certificate, the obituary as well 
as a copy of your ID and proof that the decedent owned 
the account if his or her Twitter handle is different from 
their given name.

 Yahoo. You can have an account deleted by providing 
Yahoo with paper copies of the death certificate and the 
document appointing you are the executor of the estate 
or personal representative of the deceased along with 
a letter furnishing the Yahoo ID of the decedent and 
your request that the account be deleted. Yahoo will not 
transfer or preserve any data in the account.

But why make your loved ones jump through hoops 
to deal with your digital assets? You can take care of it 
yourself with these three simple steps:

 List all your digital assets. You may already have a 
list of all your online accounts and passwords (who can 
remember them all?) so you’re halfway there. Add to that 
a list of documents on your computer as well as photos 
and other data that may be stored on backup or flash 
drives.

 Decide to keep or delete. Not everyone wants their 
family to have access to all their digital files, so review 
your list and decide which files are worth preserving and 
which ones can be deleted. Then tell your family.

Designate a digital executor. If you have already named 
an executor in your estate plan, you may want the same 
person to handle the disposition of your digital assets. If 
not, then designate someone in your will to handle this 
task. Do NOT include your accounts and passwords in 
your will! A will is a public document and this private 
information can easily be stolen.

 To talk about digital asset protection or estate 
planning in general, call our office today. As the holiday 
season approaches, there really is no better gift you can 
give yourself and your family.

 Dedicated to your family’s wealth, health, and 
happiness,

 

 

 

 A local attorney and 
father, Marc Garlett is on a mission to help parents 
protect what they love most. His office is located at 49 S. 
Baldwin Ave., Ste. G, Sierra Madre, CA 91024. Schedule 
an appointment to sit down and talk about ensuring a 
legacy of love and financial security for your family by 
calling 626.355.4000 or visit www.GarlettLaw.com for 
more information.


Deliciously Simple Marketing Recipe for the 
Holidays

Here is the basic recipe:

1. Prepare a game plan. Know what you 
want to offer; a coupon, a discount, a special 
event but it must have value to your audience.

2. Target the audience. What does your 
ideal customer looks like? Where do they 
‘hang out’ on line the channels they frequent 
(Facebook, Twitter, Istagram, etc.)

3. Choose the channels of communication. 
Email Marketing is a great way to target your 
current customers and prospects. Social media 
is a useful media for building your brand 
awareness, Advertising on Facebook can be a 
powerful tool to drive new business. Maybe a 
printed piece can be sent. How will you get the 
message out there?

4. Create the campaign. Find relevant 
images and or videos that will support your 
message. Craft you copy, be creative. How you 
say something can make a difference.

5. Create a delivery schedule. Take a look 
at a blank December calendar and look for 
opportunities to deliver your message. 

6. Execute the campaign Press SEND, 
spend some money on Facebook ads to extend 
your ready, inform your staff of how they need to 
re-post your social media messages, get the ball 
rolling and keep it rolling.

About MJ: MJ and her brother David own HUTdogs, a 
creative services business that helps their clients build 
a strong on-line presence. “Like” them on Facebook for 
trending news in social media, internet marketing and 
other helpful tips, www.facebook.com/hutdogs.

Sign up for their upcoming workshops at: www.
hutdogs.com/workshops/schedule