A few weeks ago, I heard a sermon by Amos Kropf at our church called the Idol of Success. He mentioned nine ways success can become an idol. Three that spoke directly to me:

2. Pursuit of accomplishment crowds out pursuit of God. I had to think of that in the context of this last term. My busyness did crowd out my pursuit of God. Pursuing God, going after Him, is where it's at.

6. Measuring success more by what I've done than by what God has done. When the focus is on me, how I'm doing in pursuit of my goals, then success has become elevated too high.

7. Sacrificing God's time for pursuit of success. See #2.