Slicing salami

One technique I use when working on a large project, especially on a personal project, is what I call the Salami Slice technique. The amount of time I have to work on my personal projects is sometimes limited. I try to make sure that every day, I get at least one thing done, no matter how small, towards my goal.

A project I have been working on for the last two weeks is my third DVD project. This project is to make a DVD for my parents and for J's brother. I want to put the same videos on it that I put on the DVD I made for J's mother, except I want to update them a bit. I want to touch up some of the images on the Christmas video, for example, and I want to replace the images that I had originally used of my parents, to other photos of my parents that are more thematically appropriate.

Every day I try to cut off another slice of that salami. J and I are planning to visit my parents on the 27th, so my target is to have this project complete by then.