One tear meant extra to Dave Pygon than if he had been to obtain one million favorable evaluations on Amazon.
His mom, 79-year-old Norma Pygon of Alsip, bought an opportunity to learn Dave’s debut effort as an writer, “Win the 16,” a motivational guide which was launched in early May.
The premise of the guide is to assist readers take advantage of out of the 16 waking hours that most individuals get.
Norma is likely one of the inspirations for his profession — and for the guide. She even acquired her personal chapter.
“She raised three kids on her own,” Pygon stated. “She labored in the course of the day and went to highschool at night time to get her faculty diploma. That was extremely motivating.
“Watching that and living that and seeing that was highly inspiring.”
So, Dave anxiously waited for his mom’s response to his guide.
Would she prefer it? Would she hate it? Would she criticize it?
It seems she overwhelmingly accredited, a lot to Dave’s reduction.
“She had a tear in her eye,” he stated. “She’s a ex-college instructor and she or he’s a troublesome grader. She gave it thumbs-up and she or he’s not your typical mother, so I used to be curious as to what she was going to say.
“She enjoyed the book and she said she was going to read it again. It was a good moment for her and she’s tough. You don’t raise three boys on your own on the South Side of Chicago without being as tough as she was.”
Pygon, a graduate of St. Rita High School in Chicago, had success within the enterprise world and parlayed that into changing into a motivational speaker, podcaster and writer. He now runs his personal enterprise, Pygon ONE Consulting.
He lived in Orland Park for near 20 years and made his mark organizing and training a youth and highschool journey crew group known as the Windy City Magic.
Three stars who had their early careers shaped by the Magic had been Hickory Hills native Max Strus, who’s a starter for the NBA’s Miami Heat, Tinley Park native Miles Boykin, a multisport athlete who’s a receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers within the NFL, and Orland Park’s Tommy Demogerantas, who’s enjoying skilled basketball in Argentina.
Whether its teaching future professionals or teaching individuals to be the perfect they are often in life, Pygon has all the time been a go-getting kind.
“I was always high energy and had a lot of passion by nature,” he stated. “I would say that was always a part of my personality. I always had that fire. I was always an early riser going after it. I always enjoyed motivational things whether it’s books, movies or sports.”
One of Pygon’s strongest strategies to attempt to get a variety of work carried out within the morning.
“I believe in getting early workout and getting things done early,” he stated. “You can start to win your day then. If you can get a lot done by 10 a.m. or 11 a.m., that’s good because after that, people will be stealing your time.”
He had by no means written a guide earlier than and his early-morning self-discipline got here in helpful in getting this 168-page challenge carried out in mere months.
“It was learning, it was fun, it was frustrating and it was hard,” he stated about writing. “I began writing the guide Oct. 2 and it was printed on May 2. I might schedule 5 a.m. to eight a.m. or 5 p.m. to eight p.m. and I needed to get stuff carried out.
“I put a little pressure on myself. I didn’t have the luxury of ‘oh, I have writer’s block.’ But that absolutely happened. But I think what made it enjoyable was something Mark Twain said about writing something that you know. And that’s what I did.”
He logged a variety of details about writing the guide, together with the truth that it took him 108 hours to jot down 50,000 phrases earlier than it was pared all the way down to 38,000. His subsequent writing journey is likely to be about writing a guide for these, like him, who aren’t writers.
Meanwhile, there’s one other inspiring determine in his life that he offers credit score to within the guide — former St. Rita English instructor Mike Kisicki.
Pygon stated that he and a gaggle of Mustangs athletes weren’t too eager on studying poetry till spending a couple of minutes with Kisicki.
“Nobody wanted to be there,” Pygon stated. “There were a bunch of athletes in his room. But he opened up the class with ‘Born to Run’ by Bruce Springsteen and we dissected poetry by dissecting the lines in that song.”
All of a sudden, attitudes modified.
“He made a class that we enjoyed and learned poetry because of it,” Pygon stated of Kisicki. “I keep in mind Simon and Garfunkel track ‘I am a Rock’ being about isolation. I by no means would have discovered that or remembered that however that’s the way in which he impressed us to embrace poetry.
“We all can inspire people and we can do it in different ways. But it does take work. And it does take conscious effort. He clearly did that.”
Jeff Vorva is a contract reporter for the Daily Southtown.
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