I had an 8 year struggle with depression and this concept was the major one I came out with. I do not need to be famous, successful or wealthy in anyone elses terms I need to feel significant. I looked at your 12 point checklist and realised that I need to write my own, each person’s view of what makes their life significant will be different.Have I lived up to my highest ideals today? How do I know and measure if I don’t have a list like this. Thank you Johnathan for this idea. I intend to encourage my children to write a list of their own too and we can review them together as a New Years tradition adapting them for new phases of our lives.

Psychological and mental are different, because mental has to do with intellectual pursuits, and psychological has to do with mental health.

The goal of course is to maximize the positive aspects of all of them.

Thanks, Jonathan, for a great post, and thanks for all the insightful comments.