Stop living your life at your device’s beck and call. People survived for thousands of years without being instantly reachable by anyone around the world at any given moment of the day.

Choose at least one room in the house where phones and other electronic devices are simply not allowed. Invite real honest-to-goodness, face-to-face conversation in this room.

You can start small with one day of the month. The night before this day, put away all electronic devices and don’t touch them until the day after your day unplugged.

Often we check our devices because we’re bored. Instead of defaulting to a screen, get interested in the world around you. Look around and find something you haven’t noticed before. Try to learn all you can about it by looking, touching, smelling, and otherwise using your senses.