There are so many different ways to be successful, that I don’t think you can quantify success with any one scorecard. I also don’t think anyone but you should draw up what it means to be successful.

I didn’t begin to be happy until I stopped letting other people define what success was for me. Once I decided what I wanted out of life and set myself on the path to reach that goal did I consider myself successful.

The only person that can decide if @talljasperman is a success is @talljasperman.

This is just going to continue the thread you mentioned. Definitions of success, blah blah.
My ambitions have nothing to do with shiny cars or big houses, my success will be when i have achieved my goals in creating a life the way i see it fit to be lived, and can do so comfortably.
Any system of scoring is also going to have a particular value system attached to it.
You know what iv noticed? Iv worked for a lot of very wealthy people, seriously rich. Some are nice and some are even nicer, usually the self made ones. But by and large, these people are unhappy. They are rude, have it all and still aren’t happy.

The people who are truly happy are those with less, and less to worry about.
Im not bashing everyone with wealth here, these are opinions formed by a blue collar slob with no ambition for an excessively FAT lifestyle.
I think definitions of success are a very personal thing…What was the question again?..

I agree with the other comments here. The definition of success is an entirely individual thing. I don’t think there is a way of creating a definitive scorecard because it is guaranteed, what is a 10 for one person will be a one for another. I think our understanding of success is influenced by culture, family, life experience and personality and probably a million other things too.

For me, in the long term I think other people will decide whether I have been successful. When I make posts here I find myself thinking (and writing) about my father a lot, but I suspect that is because I consider him to be one of the most successful people I have ever known. He wasn’t rich financially but he was rich in terms of the positive influence he had on others. I don’t think you can measure that but I know he influenced me, and I know he was respected and trusted by his peers. He had many friends and was viewed as an honest, generous, caring and wise man and he is still missed and loved. If I achieve the same level of positive impact on those around me, I feel I will have been successful. The rest, career, money etc., is really just icing on the cake. When the final account is drawn up, do those things really matter as much as the impact you have had on those you met often or perhaps even once during your life journey?

Success measuring flow chart:

[ Did you achieve your goals? ]
   Yes  |  No  →  [ No success ]
    ↓
[ Success ]

I only half agree with you. Health and happiness are IMO huge components of what I envision as success. Money and education are mere measurements of how well you can follow instructions and meet expectations. From here, success is really a measurement of what you want out of your life.

My 2 cents would be to measure your success by how well you live according to your values, how true you stay to yourself, how authentically you are living, how meaningful your work is to you! If you have found your purpose, you measure it against fulfilling it. Success is not just about HAVING anymore: having a job title, salary, wealth, status symbols, influential friends etc. Suddenly, success is about BEING and the DOING that comes from being who you want to be. Success is intensely personal.