Money... that’s fine...; goals and dreams, fine too. Nothing wrong with this stuff in and of itself.  But, put it before God and His Kingdom and it makes for a not so abundant life.  

I can truly say that my real joy these days does not come from things, but rather just from knowing that I have Jesus as my captain.  Not to sound all over-spiritual, but have you ever felt the joy that comes from keeping life simple and abiding in Him?

Consider our day and age and how much stuff you really are given by God to be a steward of?  No joke, even though you may think you are a ‘self made man’, where you are was allowed by God and can be just as easily taken away by God because He owns it.

John 15.4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.  5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me - and I in him - bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.  NET

Matthew 6.19 "Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  NET