This is the way to do it IMO. Keep working like that and you'll learn a lot while seeing big results over time.
Wish I would have taken this approach from the start. But instead I would too often not get started unless I had a completely automated solution developed. Then days would pass while I was developing the automation. After awhile I would find I could have been further along if I would've just done a little something everyday.
I'm only spending less than an hour a day these days.