How to quantify personal success?

My life goal isn’t “obtain as much money as possible” so I don’t measure my success in money.

I want to be a good person. I can feel whether I’m being a good person or not. When I start falling into self-loathing, that’s when I know I am not achieving my personal definition of success. Right now is a good time. I feel good about myself when I close my eyes at night. That’s success.

I want to exercise my creativity. That can be measured in how I’m spending my time. During those weeks where you see me on Fluther constantly I’m probably not doing such a good job at achieving this goal. Other times I come home from work and write or paint for 5 hours and then go to bed. That’s a night well spent.

Usually I can just feel whether I’m on the right track or not.

IMO Personal success is all about integrity. If you are where you are in life all because you did the right thing, were honest and did your best, were nice and respectful to others around you and volunteered or did a little something to help those less fortunate than you…then IMO you are a success in life.

In the end, it must be about contentment with where I have arrived, where I appear headed, and comfort with the decisions en route. There is little question that I failed in rising to the vaunted expectations of others, many of whom are baffled by the claim that there is great good fortune in being driven with a high metabolism while lacking ambition. At bottom, the grandsons and the neighbor’s dog can’t get enough of me. The fact that they don’t know any better remains irrelevant.

House staff bow & curtsey, although well trained with the use of whips & chairs.

Being useful to others. You can be rich, pretty, smart, whatever. Did any of that bring any good to anyone?

I avoid quantifying success. I have been thinking lately about the idea of radical acceptance. Start by seeing things for how they are. If there are things that you wish were different, make a mental note of them without getting hung up over them. Once you see things for how they are, you are in a position to determine what things you want to change, which of those things can realistically be changed, and start setting intermediate goals for getting what you want. External measures of success stand in the way of this process. The question is what things in and of themselves you think are important, not some external measurement.

Not having to ask what it is. You know it when you experience it.

The problem with trying to “quantify success” is that it is really only answerable at the moment one dies.

One can be successful by any measure – fame, love, adoration, charity, wealth, repute, and have it all disappear in the next moment.

Personal success is directly proportional to the number of corpses left in your wake.

I can’t quantify personal success but I can “qualify” it. I think success is providing first of all enough food and shelter for you and/or your family to live securely. Beyond that, “Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.”— Orison Swett Marden. If you have those in a proportion that works for you, you are successful.

Self acknowledgement and pride.

Lurve count. What else?

@zenvelo The problem with trying to “quantify success” is that it is really only answerable at the moment one dies.

Not even, in some cases. Jesus, Mendel and Van Gogh died as losers.