If you're like me, you may be a wee bit math phobic, but this is not Algebra or Calculus - it's Human Math.  Check around you, in your personal life, in your professional life and notice the math that is all around you.  Consider in the "blink of an eye" whether someone is an adder subtracter,multiplier or divider in your life.  Your first gut impression is probably accurate.  For a success model that works in all areas, you need to understand Human Math.

Hopefully you are surrounded by adders and multipliers.  An adder can be spotted easily by their willingness to get something  done,brighten your day - a glass half full personality.  Multipliers are not as easily spotted because there are not as many of them  running around.  A multiplier brings top value to most if not all situations.  They are always considering how to make everyone else look good,  how to improve a situation that most others have given up on long ago.  They are outstanding coaches, mentors and leaders.  If you have a mutiplier in your life, feel grateful and learn as much as you can about how they go about creating their math every day. 

On the other side of the math equation are the subtracters and dividers.  Everyone has their moments of subtraction when it's difficult to see the up side of a situation, but a friend or coworker that is in subtraction mode more than 50% of the  time is distracting, defers responsibility, makes a lot of excuses and usually plays the devil's advocate.  Being in constant communication with a subtracter can be draining and at the very least unproductive.  If you are the subtracter, you must work to get to the plus side of the equation as soon as possible.  It's just not possible to be happy and successful when you are constantly taking away from the situation, not giving back and not producing value.

The final and most dangerous of the human math problems are the dividers.  You can easily spot a divider in any group.  First of all, they function in the group as, you guessed it, a divider!  They will not only be distracting, full of excuses and disrupting, but they will habitually need others to do the same.  A divider is not happy unless they have other unhappy,disgruntled allies.  A divider feels more empowered when they can get others to agree with them.  Their motives are not to improve a situation, but to break down those who are attempting to lead, especially if they are not getting enough attention.  This will feel intimidating to a divider and they will always go into massive divider action.  I assume if you are reading this page and you are interested in how to create authentic success, you are not a divider.  What I encourage you to do is to look at who is in your life and be sure you are not trying to create success with a divider - it' just doesn't happen.  You will either be sucked into their negative energy or you will spend all of your positive energy just trying to stay in the black.

So this is HUMAN MATH.  I hope you are creating an equation for success that includes at least one multiplier.  Work with and for those who are into addition - not just for money sake, but to create value of all kinds: knowledge, time, creativity, fun!  Work and play as an adder and aspire to be a multiplier and success will surely come to you.