For me, the five hallmarks or indicators of personal success are quite the same as with professional or pastoral successes, so I will strain to separate the two.

I would say that the five hallmarks of personal success, to me, are as follows:

1. First Commandment Lifestyle: The greatest success in this life is to relate to God rightly by loving him faithfully with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength. This would entail living an uncompartmentalized life, where God comes before all other things in life. It entails loving God above any desire, any goal, any talent, any relationship, and more. It entails loving God with my schedule, my time, my money, and my strength.
2. Faithfulness: All playing fields are leveled before God by faithfulness (Matt 25:14-30). That is to say, I am not going to be rewarded or judged on Judgment Day in light of Heidi Baker’s life. Instead, I will be judged based on my faithfulness to God’s calling on my life and how I responded to the arenas he placed me in, in my life. I must seek to be faithful to respond rightly before God in all the aspects, relationships, and issues of my life.
3. Sermon on the Mount Lifestyle: To be successful is to, ultimately, be able to reflect the image of God rightly. I believe the Sermon on the Mount outlines the very basics of being Christian. The themes include poverty of spirit, brokenness of heart over our true poverty, finding comfort in God, seeking humility and righteousness, forgiving and being merciful, making peace, being pure in heart, and suffering for the sake of the Kingdom. The disciplines are prayer, fasting, and giving in the secret place where God sees, and not before the eyes of humans. To pursue to be 100% obedient to God by leaning into that poverty and mourning which carries the promises that we would be filled with righteousness, be blessed, and see God. (Matthew 5-7)
4. Seeking wholeness: I believe that success on a personal level must carry with it the seeking of perfection and ordered passions. Much of this requires real actions and initiative whether it be forgiving an enemy, seeking counseling, or finding accountability in a brother or sister in Christ. Wholeness entails having ordered passions and a deep awareness of one’s sins and propensities. It entails letting go of my past self to adopt who God has called me to be. It entails seeing my marriage and eventually family as my first priority and ministry before God.
5. Enjoying Life: In basic terms, Ecclesiastes shows that it is vanity to not enjoy life or the fruits of our labors on the earth. I think taking our lives too seriously, or the weight of sins and satanic ideologies, can lead to serious introspection, distractions, and more. These weights can be crippling and even cause stagnation or a missed call. It can cause believers to relapse into burn out and sin. On the other hand, trust in God is marked by joy even through suffering. I believe that God gives us the grace and ability to be heroes within our own stories and arenas. I believe part of finding God or being found by God is the ability to live in peace, or shalom where enjoying life becomes a kind of worship. We find peace in Him, no matter our circumstances (Col 1:24).

Although my five hallmarks of personal success overlap with success in ministry, I would say that the five hallmarks of professional or pastoral success are as follows:

1. Be Moved by God Alone: Being moved by God alone, entails having a prophetic spirit that is attentive to His leading, staying in the Word, and staying in community with the saints. According to James, the effectiveness of prayer is linked to fervent prayer, righteous living, and deep community. This is what causes much to be accomplished in God (James 5:15). This is to say, in the decisions I make, I want to be led by God. This may not come through an open vision, a word from a prophet, or a dream, but by the leading of the Spirit that comes like a whisper or in the form of peace. Of course, even this takes practice and discipline in a new Christian. In an older Christian it is a practice that we must be reminded of and renewed in our commitment to. It often involves fasting, humbling ourselves, and forgetting what we once thought was wise to see how God would lead us forward.
2. A vision for the Eternal Church: I believe that to have success in ministry is to understand what God’s sure calling is. God will complete the work he started and bring it to perfection. He is taking a weak and broken church and forming her into the image of Christ. Part of this entails not growing discouraged with the brokenness we see, and being able to call things forth in the Church that are not, as though they were (Rom 4:17). Part of this entails praying positive apostolic prayers that are directed to God rather than being focused on the devil. This is a form of drinking out of a dirty stream and giving others the same. Having a vision of the church in victory will cause my leadership to be kind in the face of failure and a fervency to see God’s will done. It also is a statement that God’s plans are more powerful, bright, and positive than the enemy’s threats of darkness.
3. Second Commandment that flows out of the First Commandment:  We can only love others as we love ourselves and love God. We can only love God and ourselves as much as we receive the love of God. A second commandment expression in ministry entails living in real time, with the real people who we interact with every day. It includes being able to stop and see Christ in the one person in front of us. How can I be entrusted to lead a church, a movment, a family, a body, if I cannot see and show love to a single individual? The nature of loving our neighbors as ourselves, is just that. It involves loving our neighbor. No matter his or her difference from us.
4.  Doing Justice: I believe that whether we are called to the marketplace or ministry we are called as agents of justice. Justice is defined by the cross and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus, alone, defines justice. His justice, His blood has been shed for all, equally. Whether oppressor or oppressed, Jew or Gentile. We are called as ministers of the Gospel and as those called to be as missionaries in the marketplace, to represent His Kingdom. To bring a right way of thinking and acting. For one this may be as simple as doing the right thing when no one is looking. For another it may mean creating programs for the poor to finish their education. No matter what expression or charity, the greatest justice on this earth is when a human is reconciled to God through faith in Jesus.
5. Operating in God’s Graces: Before every Christian is the invitation to walk in the Spirit rather than walking in the flesh. Walking in the graces of God to do good is something we can actively ask for. All ministry ought to come from God’s grace on our life, as we put the first commandment first and move out of a place of relationship to Him. We can see in Revelation, in the letter to the church of Ephesus, how they were doing great works and had great discernment and perseverance. Yet, they left their first love and were in danger of losing their influence (Rev 2:1-7). Even so, ministry is not a replacement for a relationship to God. Everything we do should be in total partnership and relationship with God so that our works can flow from His grace rather than our own empty striving works.