by It’s believed that a career in sports is frequently short-lived – athletes would blossom for a brief period of time before fading down upon withdrawal. Given their particularity in moxie and condensed training schedule from the early times, it’s noway easy for them to start another life beyond the sports field. Still, Eddie Lim Yit Min, a former public Taekwondo athlete of Malaysia, didn’t follow that common path. Through his determination and bent trouble,Mr. Eddie started his own career in youth development and successfully broke the cycle.
A National Player
At only the age of 8,Mr. Eddie formerly showed his great eventuality in Taekwondo. Soon later, he proved his gift by getting the public champion at the age of only 11 and joined the Malaysian public platoon at 16. His prowess in the sport made him one of the only four Malaysians to make the cut for both the Regional and World Qualifiers for the Athens Olympic Games, while his leadership earned him with the Captain’s armband despite being the youthful in age. Throughout his career, he represented Malaysia in multiple indigenous and world class events, and won over 10 public gold orders After winning the gold order in the 22nd Southeast Asian ( Ocean) Games at only the age of 18,Mr. Eddie came known as the youthful Malaysian Taekwondo manly athlete to gain similar achievement. He’s also the first and only Malaysian to win the coveted Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in the Korean Open International Taekwondo Crowns, bagging the award after being culled from a field of over transnational athletes.
An All-A pupil
There are always challenges behind every limelight. For numerous athletes, they’ve to make choices between education and sports. Still, this noway botheredMr. Eddie. Feting the significance of formal education and determined to ameliorate himself,Mr. Eddie didn’t disregard his practice despite his full schedule as a public sports player.
“ I believed in the significance of education. No bone allowed that athletes can do well in academy or are willing to put trouble in it,” saidMr. Eddie. “ I’ve always been veritably willful. I wanted to break this perception that people had of huntsmen and be suitable to exceed in my studies and still sculpted a career in sports.”
Mr. Eddie was a top pupil during his training times, scoring all A’s in all Malaysian public examinations. Incontinently after high academy, he was awarded several literacy, including the prestigious ASEAN Scholarship, and another full education from a original university. He, still, decided to take a break from education after high academy to concentrate on representing his country in the sport that he loved, and in the course of doing so, offered both literacy.
“ No matter how hard my training was or how numerous events I had to go for, a book was always within reach. Handbooks were residers in my luggage,” saidMr. Eddie.
Upon withdrawal from the public platoon,Mr. Eddie decided to first renew his tertiary education hobbies. It’s intriguing to note that while applying for literacy from several universities, he’d to sit for the SAT test. Astonishingly, he mustered a perfect score of 800 for the Mathematics subject, which placed him as the top 1 of all test campaigners encyclopedically. He ultimately enrolled at HELP University, a original university, under a full education and successfully graduated with a Degree in Finance.
Into the Business Realm
Many have further say-so thanMr. Eddie on the significance of good education for youthful people. “ Through sports, I learnt to be chastened and determined from a youthful age. But education handed me with the foundation and capability to view the world from a wider perspective,” saidMr. Eddie. “ It’s my want that further youths in Malaysia have access to quality education to help them discover and grow their eventuality so that they’re suitable to pursue their dreams without being bounded by the lack of openings Driven by this vision, during his council days, at only the age of 21,Mr. Eddie started his first business before he innovated Youth World in 2011, a company involved primarily in youth development programs to unleash the eventuality in youths.
“The world of business presents analogous challenges that a Taekwondo athlete faces in the ring,”Mr. Eddie said, but he has therefore far managed it well. Under his leadership, Youth World was nominated as the “ Top Three Companies” for the Asian Youth Ministers Awards after only eight months of objectification. In 2017, Youth World was also awarded the ASEAN Outstanding Business Awards in a fete graced by the presence of dignitaries from over sixteen nations.
Mr. Eddie is presently the Deputy Head of the Youth Bureau under the ASEAN Retailers and Franchise Federation. His wealth of experience and network paves way for further poignant and continuing educational outreach juggernauts in the future for all of Youth World’s stakeholders and mates.
