Honestly, the best way to handle this step, as well as every other anima step, is to just play the game regularly.

The anima steps were designed for you to gradually progress through them while doing the regular content that you would already be doing.

The only times the anima steps become bothersome is when a person decides to grind them out. That means you would be taking the full brunt of the progression all at once, and it does hit like a truck. Some people can handle that. I certainly can't. I did my anima steps just by doing raids, daily roulettes, some pvp here and there, ex primals, and capped on lore multiple times without even realizing it. Currently i'm on the 3rd section of the light grinding, and all I was really doing was EX farming for birbs lol.

If you take the focus off of your anima, progressing on it becomes much easier, and you'd get a lot more stuff done at the same time.