Rylee MeekEntrepreneur & Business Consultant

You Can’t Force Fruit — It Comes From Where You’re Planted

Name: You Can’t Force Fruit — It Comes From Where You’re Planted
Uploaded: 2025-11-11T17:58:38+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Rylee Meek
Description: A short spoken segment by Rylee Meek using the metaphor of a fruit-bearing tree to advise business owners and ambitious people to evaluate their…

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment by Rylee Meek using the metaphor of a fruit-bearing tree to advise business owners and ambitious people to evaluate their environment. Meek argues effort and hustle alone do not increase 'fruit' (results); rather, growth depends on where one is planted — by 'streams of living water' — and urges listeners to check their spiritual/positional grounding first, while still valuing personal excellence.

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A tree, you know, job essentially is to bear fruit. Right. Apple tree is just like a good example. And an apple tree never bears more or less fruit by grinding or hustling. It's the only thing that, that bears more fruit is the matter of where it's planted. Right. By streams of living water. And I think that's just so important for us, as if you are a business owner or a go getter. We're constantly trying to do things in our effort, like on our timeframe. If it's to be, it's up to me. And it's like, no. Yes. Those are good attributes that God's given us to strive for excellence in everything that we do. But first and foremost, we have to check ourselves. Where are we planted?