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Ep. 196 - Growing Straight With Crooked Branches [Business 300]

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4.6949 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We cannot faithfully look at a tree and hold tight to our idols of order and tidiness. A tree takes an axe to those idols, as it calmly grows with crooked branches. Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t romanticize chaos or disorder, for it does strive to hold its shape and structure. It wants order and aims for structure. But it doesn’t simply topple over when its root is introduced to its first boulder. It doesn’t wait to grow until the ground below it and air above it is cleared of all obstacles. A tree reminds us that a fruitful life means growth, and growth is messy. It twists and bends. It warps and grasps. It lives and grows, mess and all. Governed by it’s Maker, a tree grows straight with crooked branches.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Business 300.

0:10.0

My name is Philip Kulenshov and this is 300 seconds about business.

0:13.0

We're all a busy people, so I have five minutes or less to get my point across.

0:23.8

Maybe some of these episodes land. Maybe some of these episodes land.

0:25.7

Maybe some of them totally missed the mark.

0:28.6

But taken as a whole, I'm trying to get something across.

0:30.5

So it is with business growth.

0:34.3

People are encouraged with order and become overwhelmed when things are messy.

0:37.2

We want things to be in alignment, tidy, and in ship shape. While people land on the spectrum in different places, some can be lifeless, tidy freaks, and others have people fleeing from them like from a tornado. People in general appreciate order. That is as it should be. However, most of the time, our lives as a whole are not as orderly as we'd like. If our garage is organized, our relationships

0:55.0

are a mess. If our business is under control, our kids are all over the place. If our home is

0:59.5

spick and span, our finances are not well ordered. There can be different reasons for these issues,

1:04.0

some of which are sinful. Being lazy, scattered, and attentive or undisciplined are poor

1:08.0

excuses for living in constant chaos, we should work hard towards

1:11.3

sustainable order and put aside overwhelming chaos.

1:14.6

There is one thing, though, that creates a mess in our lives, in which I believe the

1:18.2

mess is a telling sign of a blessed life.

1:21.4

A person who always has absolutely everything under control, with everything in its place,

1:25.8

who has every corner of his life in order,

1:27.5

a speckless home, an organized small business, a comfortable retirement account, and no kids

1:31.7

to misbehave, usually has achieved that boring state of affairs due to one missing or almost

1:37.3

missing ingredient.

1:39.0

Growth.

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