From one day to the next, find what gives you minute amounts of joy. Though we might think of this as buying new gadgets to fiddle with or eating a snack, joy is found in small, easily done tasks, such as tidying up.
In August 2019 I did a text on Marie Kondo. She's a Japanese sociologist that lives and breathes tidiness. She says she fainted as a kid and had a voice of some sort tell her to explore tidiness. All right...
Today, she's got a massive enterprise where she dispenses wisdom on the art of tidiness. I'm not being snarky, that's what she is actually doing and by God, she's getting so many things right.
Marie Kondo advocates getting rid of old paper we consider valuable. That means old receipts, instruction manuals and even books. Yep, she said it! Almost immediately, bleeding-heart liberals said she wants to keep minorities in the US uneducated etc. but she actually meant that some books aren't meant to be read the entire way through. Didn't finish it? That's fine, pile all your books and decide how to get rid of them.
By forcing ourselves to deal with a problem, namely hoarding useless paper, we find a real way to pass what we have to others. In the case of books, we might gift, resell or just stack them neatly in a drawer.