Everyone wants their fair share of success. What if I could guarantee to increase your chances of creating more success in your life? Below we will discuss a certain personal practice that will dramatically increase your ability to have more success.

Muhammad Ali is considered the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He won 56 of his 61 professional fights and knocked out 37 opponents. His most famous catchphrase was, "I am the greatest!"

One day, Ali was seated in an airplane when the flight attendant came up the aisle to make sure that all the passengers had their seatbelts fastened. Reaching Ali's seat, she asked him to buckle up.

"Hmph!" the champ sneered. "Superman don't need no seatbelt!" The flight attendant smiled sweetly and replied, "Superman don't need no airplane, either." Ali fastened his seatbelt.

The greater our ability to create success, the greater the risk that we will think too highly of ourselves. Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle gives us the key to increasing our ability to generate more success, "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity." And Oswald Chambers wrote, "Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity (or success.)"

During the 1985-86 NHL season I played on an above average Montreal Canadiens team. Our team had its ups and downs but began to gain momentum during the ‘86 playoff run. We beat Boston in 3 games, Hartford in overtime in game 7, swept through New York with a hot rookie goalie by the name of Patrick Roy, and finally met the Calgary Flames in the Stanley Cup finals.

In 1986 our team’s common heartbeat, articulated in the dressing room before game 5 by my teammate Bobby Smith, was simply, "Boys we better do it now; most of us may never get this chance again." Independent of what motivated us we had created an intense cultural hungry spirit. In 1986 we won the Stanley Cup in 5 games.

The next time we met Calgary in the finals, at the culmination of the 1989 Cup run, our team was up 2 games to 1 heading into game 4. If our Canadiens team wins game 4, our will team go up 3 games to 1 in the best of 7 series and the odds of winning a second Stanley Cup increase 20 fold.

During game 4 I was checked into Mike Vernon, the Flames’ star goalie, and as I got up, Verny took a swipe at me with his blocker.

In the heat of that battle I said some words that I have always regretted: "Verny, you’re a loser and you’re going to lose again!" What happened next was incredibly revealing. The fire or hungry spirit that I saw in Mike Vernon's eyes that night told me that we were in trouble; we were going to lose. The Flames won game 4 and game 5, and finally won the Stanley Cup in game 6 in our building.

One of the reasons that we were a touch “cocky” (or at least I came across that way) was because in 1986 we had beaten these same Flames to win the Cup.

Many coaches that I talk with across multiple professional sports suggest that the hardest thing teams can ever do is WIN back-to-back.

As you have success during this 2009 season… remember to embrace it, to enjoy it, but also be aware of the potential slip in the emotional energy that happens when we win. Be one of those people who through determination, refocus and humility follow up one WIN with the next.