How do you begin each month, each week, each day? Do you have a ritual, a prayer, or an intention to mark all the new possibilities before you?

Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, has this gatha, or poem, ritual for morning:

“Waking up this morning, I smile.

Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.

I vow to go through them in mindfulness.

And look on all beings with eyes of compassion.”