7 Ways to Improve Your Well Being with Alec Hester  Rob Cesternino is joined by Alec Hester to talk about his seven things that we can each implement to improve our well-being during the reality TV offseason. After introductions, we start the podcast with Alec defining what happiness really is and why it is important before delving deep into his seven ways to improve our well-being. Alec Hester’s “7 Ways to Improve Your Well Being”: * Develop a Routine for Your Well-Being * Foster Your Social Connections * Improve your Physical Health to Improve Your Mental Health * Manage Your Screen Time * Don’t Worry (Too Much) About Money * Practice Gratefulness Every Day * Find Your Way to be More Mindful “7 Ways to Improve Your Well Being” References: * Baseball Card Study * Yearbook Photo Study * TED Talk from Robert Waldinger about the Harvard Happiness Study * 2015 Lottery Spending * Princeton Study showing how much money makes us happy * Study – Phone usage before bed harms sleep quality * Forest App – For helping limit your smartphone use to be more engaged with friends/family * Study – Depression correlates with social media use * Shawn Achor’s TED Talk: The Happy Secret to Better Work * Gilbert and Killingsworth – Harvard mind-wandering study * Hedy Kober’s Meditation Study * The Science of Well-Being – Dr. Laurie Santos’s Free Yale Course