The first 60 minutes of your day decides if your brain's motivation system works for you or against you. Your brain runs on dopamine. The molecule that drives motivation, focus, and goal-directed behavior. Your dopamine system is especially sensitive right after waking. What you expose it to affects how it functions all day. Wake up and immediately scroll? Check emails? You flood your system
with cheap dopamine. Your brain adapts. Starts craving more stimulation. Hard tasks feel impossible. Protect that first hour instead. Do something hard. Move your body. Create before you consume. Your dopamine baseline stays stable. Motivation becomes easier. Not because you're disciplined. Because you programmed your neurochemistry correctly. The morning doesn't determine your mood. It determines your capacity to do hard things later.
O Ethical Basketball Gods,
We have created good shots and pure looks, yet the rim has betrayed us as of late.
We ask not for luck nor whistles tonight against the unethical powerhouse—
Only that open jumpers fall as intended.
Bless our shooters with confidence and a friendly bounce.
Restore the law of averages and let the net finally move.
In ball movement we trust.
Amen
I never knew until today what David meant in Psalm 23 when he said, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” Nowhere does it say he stopped to wonder why he was in the valley. It simply says he walked through. Let me tell you this: now is not the time to figure out why you’re going through the valley. Just trust God and keep walking. No matter what circumstances you face, keep believing God is working on your behalf. There’s something waiting at the end of the valley.
He actually never bought anything with that money. He did regret betraying Jesus, so he threw the money into the temple, which was used to buy the potter’s field.
However, there was a symbolic reason behind what he did. 30 pieces of silver were the price of a slave; him selling out Jesus like that symbolised how little/cheaply Jesus was valued.
The 30 pieces fulfilled Zechariah’s prophecy that pieces of silver thrown into the temple will buy the potter’s field.
The point was that the world may undervalue what is holy, but God still brings purpose, prophecy, and redemption out of human failure.