Cantando, maybe when you were talking about approaching your desires incrementally, you were thinking about gradually changing your vibrational frequency, or gradually moving up the emotional guidance scale.
That's not about having your desire fulfilled incrementally -- like, manifesting $10 instead of a million. It's about when you're feeling stuck in, say, jealousy or despair, you deliberately think thoughts that move you up a notch or two, to give relief in an upward scaling way. So, rather than overwhelming yourself by trying to get from despair to joy in the blink of an eye, it might behoove you to experience moving up the scale one level at a time, giving yourself relief at each step.
That is not the same as scaling down your desire from a Mazerati to a Hyundai, though, obviously.