Felix Sim, Founder and CEO of Playlor! gave a talk to forward-looking and enterprising students at the Singapore Management University today on the topic of "Leveraging Your Youth". In his talk, Felix shared his experience on how he started off in life always a step behind his peers, and how what he did to change that by leveraging on what he had while he was a youth. For a video of the presentation, go to http://playlor.com/2012/01/leveraging-your-youth/

1. Leveraging your Youth
Felix Sim
Founder and CEO, Playlor!

2. About Playlor!
Playlor! is a Sports and Social Club
in Singapore
Started in 2011 by Felix Sim, our
goal is to facilitate bonding and
net working amongst adult
professionals through sports
We offer an all-inclusive
Corporate Sports Day packages for
companies with a focus on team
bonding and staff engagement
We have our own sports facility,
which consists of 3 indoor courts
spanning 15,000 sq ft!

3. Our Events

4. What does being a
“Youth” mean to you?

5. too young to do half the
things you want to do,
too old to do the other
half.

6. What do you understand
by “Leverage”?

7. Making use of a quality or
advantage youhave, to obtain
a desired goal,
in as short a time as possible.

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26. How I did it?

27. Rule #1
Discover Yourself

28. What “Qualities” do
you(ths) have?

29. Energy
Enthusiasm
Freedom
Optimism
Creativity
Technology

30. What do you(ths) lack?

31. Experience
Credibility
Rationale
Contacts
Capital

32. Rule #2
Plan

33. How?
• Energy • Experience
• Enthusiasm • Credibility
• Freedom • Rationale
• Optimism • Contacts
• Creativity • Capital
• Technology

34. How? 3 things
• Build a network in your selected
industry
• Position yourself as an authority
• Branding, branding, branding!

35. felixsim.com - since 2007

36. Linkedin Profile since 2007

37. 9.3m results - for Felix Sim

38. What are the 3 things to do?

39. Build
Brand Position

40. Rule #3
Execute

41. What Next?
• Register a domain name (use your
own name!)
• Setup a LinkedIn Profile
• Go through the 3 Rules

42. What are the 3 Rules?

43. Discover
Execute Plan

44. Thank you!