Take some time each day to just sit quietly and brainstorm -- no TV, no radio, no kids -- just silence and a comfortable chair.

What should you be thinking about? 

How to be different from everyone else out there.  How to automate parts of your business so you can focus on making money.  New ways to get traffic and sales. 

Write down all of your ideas as they come to you, then prioritize them in order of which ones will increase your profits the quickest.  Most importantly, put those top two or three ideas into action right away!  Most people never take action on their ideas -- and become stagnant as time goes on.

One example of this type of thinking is a different way of getting links to your sites.  Most people go out and ask for links, pay for links, or just sit back and hope for links.  YOU can be different -- go out and have a simple software application created for you by freelance programmers that solves a problem in your niche market.  $200 should be enough to get the project done for you.  You then make this tool available to others in your market for free, in exchange for links back to your site or viral word of mouth buzz.  You'll get hundreds of one-way links that will end up costing you much less than the standard pay-per-link methods that everyone else uses.

Be strange, be different, be unique, be profitable...