And as we all know, these resolutions are usually decided upon before New Year's Eve, practised for the first month of the new year and then disbanded by the time February rolls around.

For many from the age of nine onwards, the most popular yet regularly failed personal NYR is one that is deceptively simple: to look at the screen less often.

This past decade that is about to disappear from screenshot has taught us to sleep, eat and use the bathroom without needing to separate from our personal technology, whether that be mobile phones, tablets or laptops.

Many of us wake up reading the news and checking our emails before we even manage to stagger out of bed, hit the bathroom or eat breakfast.

As the day evolves, we get sucked into the social media vortex of likes, comments and shares, with some experts suggesting we check our phones or tablets a staggering 200 times a day.

While most would agree that personal technology has become an indispensable part of our daily lives, we would also confirm it has been a source of mounting frustration that many of us pledge to rectify each year - only to fail.

Access to our personal technology has created a "24/7 on" work culture in which many of us never really have the opportunity to power down from our jobs.

We reach for our phones at the slightest sign of downtime, interrupt face-to-face conversations to check meaningless online chitter-chatter and let our interpersonal relationships suffer at the hands of our digital-centric inclinations.

And this decade has seen our ever-increasing screen time fuel escalating levels of privacy violations, censorship issues and cyber bullying.

Ironically, while most believe digital technology has enabled us to connect with others in ways never thought possible, many of us are seemingly lonelier than 10 years ago.

In addition, experts believe personal technology has resulted in a diminished form of human interaction, reduced our attention span and provided us with an overwhelming amount of information that we simply cannot manage.

No wonder many of us resolve to engage in a spot of digital decluttering as we approach the end of each year.

Yet simply committing to look at a screen less regularly or turning off notifications isn't anywhere near enough if we are serious about a lasting NYR that results in a decluttering of our digital lives.

If you want your digital minimisation NYR to persist beyond the first month of this coming decade you might just have to undergo a form of detox to partly - though not necessarily completely - unplug from your digital life.

The range of digital detox options might surprise you.

A whole new global industry has emerged focused on chopping out, restricting or changing our engagement with personal technology.

There are the equivalent of weekly AA meetings for addicted gamers, life coaches who focus our attention on divorcing our digital ways, and tech-addiction therapy as well as the 30-day digital cleanse, a program designed to help you disconnect from technology one step at a time.

But the business of unplugging does not stop there.

There are also no-technology retreats, digital detox camps that provide for week-long technology- and gadget-free fun.

In those camps, when guests check in at reception their mobile phones and other electronic devices are checked out to support - or perhaps force - a reconnection with others.

Rather than a rushed dinner while experiencing endless flattery over Facebook, guests are assigned a dining companion for old-fashioned, one-on-one conversations face-to-face. Even better, the absence of personally inspired Spotify playlists will allow exercise session participants to focus solely on their contorted bodies during sweaty sessions of Bikram yoga.

And just like so many challenges in our lives, the problem can also facilitate the solution.

There is an app called Digital Wellbeing, which locks us out of our phones when we have reached our self-nominated screen time limit. The app also allows us to revert to a dumb - as opposed to smart - phone setting that is not optimised for heavy app usage and therefore reduces the number of notifications and, of course, distractions.

But for those who want to experience a digital declutter in 2020 without the price tag, there are some simple techniques that have met with some success.

Try embracing a digital Sabbath by abstaining from screen time for a single day each week. Or abide by the "no tech wake-up" mantra and refrain from logging on as your alarm clock rings. Another option is to participate in a mini detox in which phones are powered down at lunch each day.

At the end of the day though, while the new decade will most likely see the business of unplugging reach new heights, a seemingly too-obvious solution can ensure your digital minimisation 2020 NYR has some longevity: get used to regularly turning your mobile phone to "do not disturb" or - better yet - turn it off completely.