Here's an idea to put to work with your small business, one you can apply to your work no matter what you do whether you're a real estate developer, a baker, an artist, a copy writer or an inventor: Every morning, you probably hop on your computer and check your emails. Tomorrow when you wake up, don't do that. Instead, use those early minutes of the day to create something new.
Put together a new banner ad, write a new article, make a new contact and start a new business relationship, but take the first hour of the day and use it to focus on what new things you're going to experience in your immediate future. Don't waste that hour reading up on how everyone responded to what you did yesterday, use it to make people respond to something you're going to do today.
The approach that people have to communication and business on the internet is quite often totally backwards. They're more focused in studying past successes than pursuing new ones. Don't fall into that trap. It's true that you can learn from your mistakes, but dwelling on them suggests a timidity about making new ones, and making new mistakes is how you learn from them, not by focusing on ones you made yesterday or a week ago.
Say you put in a proposal at your favorite freelancing website yesterday. You're probably eager to see if any of those proposals got a response. Why not put in five more proposals before checking? The sting of disappointment when your proposals are turned down hurts a little less because you're not focusing on your past mistakes, you're focusing on future opportunities.
Many bloggers do their best work in the morning for this very reason. At 7 AM, there's no telling how the day is going to turn out and anything is possible. It's exciting to start a new day full of possibility, and the easiest way to squander that excitement is to immediately start worrying about whether the client replied to that email, whether that banner ad you designed yesterday is drawing in hits, whether you have any positive comments on the new video you posted and on and on.
Use lunchtime to focus on the past if you like, but use the morning to create something new, to do something exciting. As fun as it might be to look and see if you're getting any extra hits from that new blog directory you just submitted to or whether your new ad campaign is working, the bottom line is that it's not getting you anywhere to obsess over those factoids early in the morning. Start something new every time you get out of bed and you'll be surprised at what you can accomplish in a day.