Today is the Festival of Sleep holiday.

While no one really knows who invented it, we can appreciate many of the notions behind the day of slumber including:

• Easing into the new year and our newly rekindled motivations by slowly and steadily building new habits.
• Maintaining our positive outlook on our resolutions.
• Creating small action steps toward the larger goals.

One way that I eased into and maintained my habit motivations last year was by reading:

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives. By Gretchen Rubin

I focused on one of Gretchen Rubin's "habit mastering" philosophies each month. I highly recommend it to anyone hoping for a bit of strategy and encouragement when sticking with new year's resolutions, goals, forming new habits, etc.

P.S. Trying a new habit for the new year? Learn how to create a short action plan for success!