Fear. My entire life is a vast equation of fear. I don't get motivated until fear of what will happen if I don't take action possesses a larger value that the fear of what will happen if I do take action. This explains my lack of any social life, a girlfriend/wife, or even a job. The fear of failure at these things prevents me from taking action to correct the deficency.
I fear making friends because I've never really had any close friends.
I fear even making noises about starting a relationship because I'm afraid that I don't have anything to offer a potential partner and, also that I might have to give to much of myself up.
I'm afraid of getting a job with someone else because the last 3 that I had result in me being let go without so much as a goodbye, or in the case of the one where I was there for 4.5 years a weak lie about the failing economy when in reality it was the fact that competition had come into the area.
So there it is, my soul bared before you. What drives me? Fear.