1922: Making Your Financial Future with Kusal Ariyawansa Founder and Owner of Appleton Gerrard Private Wealth Management

Kusal Ariyawansa is an adviser and mentor to business owners and families. He specialises in accelerating the development and attainment of their financial goals and aspirations. 20+ years in the profession he is the current chairman for the Manchester region of the Personal Finance Society and is the Chartered Champion

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Non-specific

When business started difficulties overcame:

“the main difficulty that I encountered was that I was an academic, I had no idea about business, I had no idea about most of the realities of life. I was programmed to be an employee going to work on this workplace conveyor belt to make some tasks for other people and earn some money at the end of the month. I had no idea. So, my boss when he told me that he is going to give me our client base I was well impressed. And he said all I have to do is speak to them and do some financial planning for them. That’s great. But unfortunately involved using this thing called the telephone. And I don’t use the telephone – at that age I didn’t use the telephone so it very quickly became apparent that I had no telephone manner. I didn’t have a personality according to him”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber

Favourite Quote:

“you become what you think”

Recommended Online Resources:

• Professional bodies
• The Personal Finance Society (PFS) is a professional body dedicated to building trust in the financial planning profession
• Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) Financial Services Professional Body are  the leading professional body for securities investment practitioners
• The Money Advice Service helps you manage your money better Use our Health Check tool, calculators and comparison tables to make the most of your finances

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“don’t become an entrepreneur to just make money. Instead, if you focus on your customer and their entire experience money will naturally follow. Remember my three pillars for a purposeful life… Make sure that you find that purpose in whatever you do because you see a life of purpose will reveal the purpose of life”…[Listen for More]

More About Kusal Ariyawansa:

Appleton Gerrard

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

Other Quotes From the Chat with Kusal Ariyawansa:

• “better communication skills and delegation. Because when I started my communication skills were pretty average and had I been better at listening as opposed to talking I would have done much better than I did in the first few years. But I would say that is a natural course of human progression. You are not born wise like a 60- or 70-year-old able to talk to anybody. And understand as a young person you are there to eagerly give your opinion on everything and unfortunately other people aren’t interested in that”
• “success depends on a wide variety of things… I would say success really depends on your state of mind because if you think you need to do more and more and more. If it is for the right reason reasons that’s fine. If it’s for the wrong reasons that success to me is a myth. So, to me success is being content and happy with what you have whilst you still know you are progressing and advancing and developing be it mentally or physically or shall we say even financially. Success does not mean to me becoming the next Bezos or Bill Gates. That is not for me success. Of course, they are successful in their own ways, that’s fine but that is not what I deem to be success. I deem content, happiness far more than monetary rewards”
• “belief is very powerful and mindfulness clarifies your thinking enabling you to realise the destructive powers of those negative thoughts which enables you to then sell the realise that the only way is positivity. So, you become what you think is such a meaningful and impactful and truthful statements for me because what I am now is everything I believed I should be”
• “be prepared, plan now and invest in building in your dream otherwise you will end up working for someone else building their’s”

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