Do you look at the bigger picture or the little one?

I don't think it matters how you slice it: $1/hour, $24/day, $168/month, $365/day or $384 during a Chinese leap year -- I think you're focusing on the wrong thing.

Money is important -- but especially in the beginning, it's a really bad indicator of how well you're doing. Making money takes sustained success over a long period of time and important actions you take today might not pay off financially for months. Building a successful business is necessarily an exercise in delayed gratification, so if you're always focused on your short-term balance sheet, you'll likely miss opportunities and misjudge your progress.

Making money is also dependent on doing the complete package correctly: product, traffic, sales, branding, etc. Even if you do everything else perfectly, if you do just one of these things wrong -- if, for instance, you have beautiful sales copy, and a fantastic product, but no traffic -- you won't see any money. But in the previous example, you wouldn't want to give up or throw out your beautiful sales copy just because you aren't making money. You'd want to get more traffic!

Finally, putting the focus on your profit puts the emphasis on your goals -- when what you should really be focusing on are the goals, needs and demands of your customers. And if you're not focused on your customers, you had better believe that your competitors will be. And if your competitors do a better job serving your customers, you won't meet your goals anyway.

So at least in the beginning, don't focus so much on the money -- it's just not a reliable indicator of early progress. Think of the money more as a side effect of achieving all your other business goals, especially the goal of providing the most value you can to your customers. If you do that effectively, the money will roll in by itself.