How do you Judge Your Own Success?

[Shandi]

I've been thinking about bases on which people judge personal success: Physical Ability, Career, Health+Wellness, Monetary, Relationships, Intellectual... I'd like people to add to the list.

For instance, for someone who judges his or herself based on physical ability, their highest goal might be to win the Ironman triathlon.
For someone who sees health and wellness as success, the highest goal might be complete balance. An intellectual may strive to join Mensa and beyond.

[Vigafre]

I tend to just my success on whether I failed on completing a task or not. I'm not trying to sound like a smart-aleck or anything, but I tend to think negatively.

[Shandi]

I kind of like that idea. That way you're not applying any arbitrary label to dynamic people, or a rigid standard to a changing life. Seems kind of like taking success or failure as a less permanent thing.

[CommanderKeen]

I'm not in debt. Check!

I have at least two years of post-secondary and have a piece of paper that says i know something. Check!

Not working entry level job. Check!

Doing what you love. Check

enjoying life? Check

I'm happy. So what does it matter?

[zfubarz]

I'm me, everything I do is exactly how I wanted it to turn out. Not to sound cocky, but I'm ok with however everything and anything turns out normally. Leaves very little room for failure. I wouldn't really call it optimism, but it's close.

[Metcarfre]

As I see it, success is an earthly concept. Humans were made for more than this earth. We strive for something "more", no matter what we have.

[masamune]

As I see it, success is an earthly concept. Humans were made for more than this earth. We strive for something "more", no matter what we have.

i love you.

[Alja-Markir]

Happy, healthy, love others and loved = Success

~Alja~

[Kara]

Happy, healthy, love others and loved = Success

~Alja~

This.

[Shandi]

It's the happy part that'll getcha.
There must be something people strive for to achieve happiness and thus success, or everyone would be infallibly confident and fulfilled.

[Genghis Ares]

I think it just comes down to happy.

[Nevrmore]

Pfffft, health and happiness and family? Yeah I guess that's success, for losers!

My vision of success is at least fourty seven billion dollars, a pool filled with pudding (chocolate, tapioca if I'm feeling frisky), and the author of Beartato hired to constantly draw whimsical comics about my life.

You know, The American Dream.

[Graham]

If I'm happy, I'm doing a-ok.
And I'm usually pretty happy.

I love to be creative, and entertain people. I do those things a lot.

So... on those grounds, I think I'm successful.

[Bruze&Badder]

Happy, healthy, love others and loved = Success

~Alja~

Aye for that.

[Allen!]

By the suffering of others.

Actually, the happiness and comfort of those around me.

[Genghis Ares]

So if something was happily torturing you, you'd feel successful.

[Machalllewis]

How drunk I currently am. The more drunk I am the more successful I am at my current aim in life.

[Dutch guy]

For me to judge myself successful in life I would want to meet just one criterion: Be able to afford and provide for myself (And maybe later my family) everything I want and need to keep myself healthy and happy, get my children good schooling and be able to afford whatever hobby I have.

It's a bit hard to explain it that easily in text. That text just doesn't get the meaning across to my liking.

[Metcarfre]

As I see it, success is an earthly concept. Humans were made for more than this earth. We strive for something "more", no matter what we have.

i love you.

No, I believe you in fact love Jesus.

[Allen!]

So if something was happily torturing you, you'd feel successful.

Assuming I could continue to give them the happiness of torturing me without giving them whatever they wanted, then yes.

[Lawman]

I base my success on the percentage of my coat-hangers that are wooden. Or at least the broad plastic ones for hanging suits on.

[Arius]

Success? No thanks.

I never want to stop working for my desires. I never want to wake up and have everything I've ever wanted. I never want to be complacent.

I want to spend every waking moment burning inside with the passion for what I need. I want to want. I want to need. I want my entire life to be a pursuit for something more.

It's not success that defines a person, it's how they deal with their failures. You can run from your failure, you can learn from it and move on, or you can refuse to learn and keep trying.

I never learn, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

That's living.

[Lord Chrusher]

Happiness mostly although that is almost too general.

[James]

As long as I don't spend my day second guessing everything I'm doing then I consider myself to be living a successful life.

[Alja-Markir]

In a sort of addendum to my prior post, I will add that I don't consider a day seized until I've lived it twice. Or deleted it from my personal timeline. Either/or really.

~Alja~