New Year's resolutions. Some people are firm believers in them, while others think they're straight bologna. Me? I think they're a fairly decent way to prioritize things that I want to improve, although I will admit...I'm usually pretty horrible at following through with them. Every year, no matter how hard I try, the motivation I have on January 1st is somehow completely lost after about...five days. This year, however, I have a New Year's resolution that I will follow through with. I am going to extremely try and find some sort of self-discipline.

This year, starting January 1, 2017, I am going to make a grand effort to spend less time on my phone. Way too often do I find myself struggling to hear the end of someone's sentence while typing some completely different thought into a text. I want to put down my phone and really listen to what people are saying to me. When I look back on my twenties (and thirties, and forties, and so on...) I want to remember things beyond what my iPhone screen was telling me.

So this year, I swear, I will follow through with my new year's resolution because it's extremely important to me that I don't allow my phone to distract me from real conversations and real life experiences.