Daily Motivations - FOCUS ON YOURSELF & MAKE IT HAPPEN

Episode Date: October 18, 2026

Most people just say they want it. They don't actually put in the work and be obsessed with it every day and night. The Druski Interview. Edited by Motiversity."Believe in yourself man. Before anyone else sees the vision, you have to see it." - Druski►SpeakerDruskiDrew Desbordes, known professionally as Druski, is an American comedian, actor, and influencer. He is known for his sketch comedy, Coulda Been Records, and collaborations with various musicians in their music videos, including Drake, Lil Yachty, Jack Harlow, and othersInstagram- Daily_motivationsorgFacebook- @daily_motivationsorgSupport us PayPal

Believe in yourself, man, before anybody sees the vision, you have to see it. If you don't see the vision yourself, you're almost doing yourself a disservice. It has to start with you. Most people don't understand what they have in front of them. Everybody's like, once I do it, da-da-da-da-da, I'm going to do this. Once they give me an opportunity, I'm going to wait down my opportunity. I'm going to just keep da-da-da-da-da. You don't even believe in yourself, man.

Are you really doubling down and betting on yourself if you're not investing in, your own stuff. I believed even then, I could already see it happening. Like I had visions of it already being in front of me before I even got a chance to actually do it. Most people never get a chance to see the real side of success because they quit. But I knew I'm like, I'm going to keep going. My back's against the wall. I'm going to continue to keep pursuing making videos, boom, boom, boom, boom.

those early moments really shaped a lot for me. I wasn't going to stop believing yourself more than you have ever believed in your entire life. You can be iconic. You are great. You are one of one. And to stay consistent, even when the road looks rough and you cannot see the whole at the end of the tunnel. Because that's something that most people, they can't see. the outcome. Once it gets kind of blurry and it's foggy and most people quit. That's the point

most people quit. You didn't even get through the trials and the tribulations yet. And most people, they get off the track before it even starts. They can't see the outcome so they get worried and they just jump off. And that's what I would tell myself, man. Stay to it. Stay to it. If you believe there's something more to your life, there is. If you have that vision that keeps popping up in your head. That means that very much so is in your life. In the back of my head, I was like, I know it, I know it, I know it.

There's more to this than what I feel. It's like, I'm just bet on myself. Most people don't really want to be great. Most people just say it because it sounds good. Like I would be around a lot of guys and be like, yo, let's do it. Let's wake up in the morning and they would just fall out. Everybody eventually just goes away.

Everybody that said they were gonna do it. They'd do it one day. They're not showing up the third day. Nobody, nobody's showing up. shows up continuously for the work. And once I notice there's a small amount of people that are showing up for the actual work of anything, it just showed me, okay, I'm in a lane of this of my own. I'm pursuing something that most people say, but they're not really trying to pursue.

Everybody wants to be number one. You want to be the top of the list. Everybody wants to be the top of the list. But nobody really wants to do the work. Nobody's obsessed with it continuously every day and night, having dreams about it. I'm trying to juggle all these things in one because I want to be great. I don't want to just do it and be like, okay, I'm going to take some time off and just, no, I really want to be number one.

I don't, I'm not really falling victim to being okay with being cool with number two or three. And I joke about it all the time because one of my favorite movies is Taladiggin Nights. And Ricky Bobby said, if you ain't first, you're last. And me and my family, we joke about it all the time, we laugh about it, but I kind of took that vision seriously because that's, really how I live my life and that's really how I feel because what else could be other than wanting to be number one. What happens when you become number one? You still got to keep pushing the mouse because somebody's chasing. There's somebody coming.

Somebody's on the way. So I feel like the journey never ends because you're always continuously chasing. You know, if it's not the people before you, it's trying to continue to set the bar high for the people behind you. You state that the goal is to be great. How would you know you've become great? I think being great has a lot of different meanings. It doesn't have a money value or I think just being great comes down to just how far you're willing to set the bar. There's always people before you that have done great things. You got Eddie Murphy that has set the bar fucking way up here.

Then you got Kevin Hart that's fucking damn near where Eddie's at. And he looks very healthy. He looks like he might take it further than Eddie. Who knows? I don't know. But there's always somebody gaining on that right behind the grades before. He's the same with Kobe, Jordan, LeBron. Somebody's going to continuously keep setting the ball higher.

So it's like we're all trying to just leave a legacy, sort of say. Like I think that's what we're all trying to do. You want to be in that conversation. You want to be in that conversation. When it's all said and done, I would love to be. in that conversation. We all want to surprise great things. We all do.

But just to be in that conversation and to be remembered and to leave a legacy, that's what matters. But it's hard to believe after you see all of this stuff, you only know me for that. You didn't meet me when I was just

at home, living with my mom broke on the sofa. You know what I'm saying? You didn't see the real side of who I actually am. So you go off to college And you last, was it two semesters before you dropped out?

So I spent like a year and then another half of a semester there and I got enough credits to transfer because I was like, okay, I've got to get out of here. Like I know my life is bigger than this. And also at the time, I wasn't thinking, oh, I want to be a superstar. I was just thinking I wanted a real college experience. I wanted to go to a four-year college. I didn't have the grades to do it in high school and go straight there.

I want to find a way to do it in college. So I think when I went to Georgia Southern as the school following that, I just wanted to find the college ecosystem of like, what's the vibe here? Oh, this party, let's do this. And I didn't find that as soon as I got there. It's almost like I didn't get the immediate, this is college. Like I thought I would get after I got there.

And I went into like a deep depression because I had two guys that I knew. and I was like, oh, okay, I'll link up with him. He'll be a great friend to be along with on this ride of whatever this new school is. And I would try to link up with them, and for some reason, it always was a hassle for me to link up with them. They always would be like, oh, we always got to pick you up.

You don't have a car. And I'm like, no, I'll get an Uber to y'all. Well, if you don't have any money to get into the game, there's no point in coming because we can't pay for you. Or I want to come to the party with y'all. Oh, well, you have the same shoes that you. you hoopin, why would we bring you? I felt like I wasn't deserving enough to be around them. For the first time of my life, very depressed. And that kind of bothered me because I started to

just not even go to classes anymore at this new school. I was just staying in my dorm room and would just sit and think. I'm calling my friends back at home. They're not doing nothing. So I kind of didn't want to go home because I'm like, damn, they're not doing shit. I'm not going to go back. But also, like, what am I doing here? I'm not doing anything here either. What is my purpose in life? So sitting in there, and being depressed and sad and looking at myself in the mirror, I started to figure out, I'm like, damn,

what do I really want to do in life? Is any of this really makes sense? Like, I'm here for sports journalism, but I took sports journalism to be maybe an ESPN sports cast just to get my face on TV. I didn't know. I was like, maybe I want to do that. It sounds cool.

But as I continued to do more, I guess, soul-searching, sort of say, just sitting in the room and thinking about what I want to do, that these, I would sit and watch Steve Harvey interviews on like, what is it you want to do in your life? Jump off a mountain top and take a risk. And like I would watch all these videos of everything of people I looked up to, Kevin Hart, and I started to figure out, okay, what's my purpose? These are the people I look up to.

But what exactly do I want to do? And as I continued to do more search and I started to figure out, okay, wow, I think all the people I look up to are all. like comedic legends. I'm watching Will Ferrell stuff, Chris Farley. These are guys that I find as my heroes. I think since I've always been the funny guy in every classroom, everything I've done, sports, I get kicked off the football team for being funny. All this stuff is because I am a comedian. And it was almost like, I'm an, I felt like an idiot because I'm like, damn, I'm sitting over here in college. That is my purpose. This is it. I feel more connected to them than I've ever felt to anything I've ever felt in my life.

Why? The things they would say in a Kevin Hart interview, the things he would say in a Steve Harvey interview, the things Will Ferrell would say, or Chris Farley would say, or Jim Carrey, I felt more attached to it because they also felt a need and a purpose to become like a hero of comedy. I don't know. It sounds dumb because when you talk about it. tell your parents, oh, I want to be a comedian. They're like, oh, you're like basically a clown, I guess,

and you'll go start doing stand-up rooms, and maybe you make it, maybe you don't. It sounds kind of silly telling people or your hometown friends, oh, I'm going to be a comedian. But as I continue to do more and more research on everything I wanted to do, I started to figure out, okay, this is my purpose. And it always has been, and I see these videos of me as a kid. I'm remembering memories of all this stuff early on.

this is it. And that's when I just had like an epiphany. That was the moment I noticed, okay, I'm going to turn my life around. I'm going to lock in actually do it. I think it's interesting often that your nature was clearly you're a comedian, but that's not a career that kids are taught about. I thought that about being an entrepreneur. I didn't know it was a thing until I was 19,

and I was already doing it. And then I heard the word, and someone gave it meaning. I was like, oh, that's the thing you can do as a job. Yeah. And then suddenly, you know, mind expansion. Yeah, you know what it was? I knew. I always knew that comedy was a thing.

I didn't know that I wanted to do it as bad as I was doing it. I was always watching it. I always watched. My mom would show us in living color movies. Like, what about Bob early on? My dad would always have the Chappelle show on. And I would try to sneak and watch that because I would. I was very much rated R.

But the fact that it matter is that it was always in front of me. And I always was a big fan of comedy. I just didn't know that my mom sort of say was influencing. She always had like quotes or good things she would always say. Just continue to believe in yourself. Continue to know this. So my mom was always a big believer in anything becoming big, you know. I was so, I was chasing being great.

And I might have been far-fetched and me to say something as wild as that. But that's honestly how I felt. Like I was going to make it happen or I was going to perceive myself as a failure. I didn't see anything different. I saw nothing else but a green light down this tunnel. I saw nothing. I knew in the back of my mind what I was capable of. I already knew.

I felt like my entire life I knew, but I just didn't put the pieces together. But when I told my mom that I knew, I said, okay, I have committed to something that I know there is no possible in or out. I'm going to do this. Or die trying, truthfully. You know, like I feel like I'm either going to do this or I'm not, and I'm going to make it happen. But it's true. Sounds crazy, but it's true, man. That's how much belief I had in myself,

and that's how I felt like with my back against the wall. Like, I really did want to do it that bad. And still, like, I do feel the same about achieving greatness. I don't tend to like things that are just good. And people are like, oh, my God, I became rich. I'm good, man. I'm going on vacation. I don't do any vacationing.

I find it soothing to be. in a chaos situation of work and juggling of multiple projects at once. Like, that is what I want to do. This is what I got into it for. As a 31-year-old now, what does it taught you about what it takes to be successful broadly? Again, remove luck from the equation. Let's remove some people getting fortunate with lottery tickets, whatever else. But generally, what is it taught you about what it takes to be successful in the pursuit of a goal like that?

So, to be honest, not many people ever make any money. When you're trying to be great, you never get a chance to celebrate the things that you have done. You almost don't feel in the moment because you're looking for the, what's the next thing? Years of seeing nothing, and I think people don't see that. People see with social media, there's a bunch of quick reaction to things. And people are like, oh, my God, this person, oh, they went viral for that. Oh, my God. Now, what can I do with this?

People always worried about, oh, I'm going to take this thing. I did this video or I did the, and now I'm going to go get a team. I'm going to go. It's like, what are you doing? You don't need a fucking team. Keep grunt, do it again. And my mom would always, I feel like she influenced me to be like that

because I would come home from school all the time and be like, oh, I got a B on this test. She's like, oh, you could have done better. I'm like, oh, I did this. At school, they told me I was, oh, come on, you could have done better on that. Not like it's not enough, but it's like you always can do better.

Even if you got an A on this, why didn't you get an A plus? But these are my. My parents, though, they're always looking for the greater thing. Always. No matter what it was, even if it was academics, you could have done better or you could have gotten it a different way or there's other routes to get to it. It was almost never a correct answer in my household because there's different ways you

can find an answer to anything. So when I do my type of comedy, I never sit on doing one thing. If I do one thing, that's amazing. I'll come back and hit another situation. or I'll hit another situation. I'm going to be funny in this way too. I'm not just going to be funny in this way. I can also be funny at a live show.

I can also be funny in a sketch version. I can also be funny in a movie. I can also be funny on a TV show. I can also be funny in a commercial. I feel like my life has gone in that direction because of these upbringings, of these teachings that both my parents had set for us. What remains?

I still literally feel like this little boy in all these pictures. Like I see these moments and it reminds me. of how free I was able to be as a kid. That is my purpose. This is it.