# Develop personal resourcefulness

**Source**: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/resourcefulness/personal/
**Parent**: https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/resourcefulness/

Personal or emotional resourcefulness involves understanding how to use what you have around you.

Consider how to get what you need in order to develop necessary personal and emotional skills.

## Videos

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### [The Six Ways to Wellbeing](#uoy_modal_youtube_embed_978140_1)

This video talks you through the Six Ways to Wellbeing and shows you how to implement them in your everyday, to help you cope with life's ups and downs.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv_gTg1KzKc>

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### [Tips for managing stress](#uoy_modal_youtube_embed_978140_2)

MIND has created an animation that offers some tips for managing stress as a university student, as part of their Mentally Healthy Universities programme.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh5HyJ1rxzk>

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### [The importance of relational intelligence](#uoy_modal_youtube_embed_978140_3)

Esther Perel uses the TED Talk stage to talk you through how relational intelligence can guide you towards wellbeing and success.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtmLBOfIRM>

## Podcasts

[Terrible, thanks for asking](https://open.spotify.com/show/5UTjOFnLWvTKPcLhbPBgk0)

In this podcast, Nora McInerny asks real people to share their honest and complicated feelings about how they really are. It's sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and often both.

[Who hurt you?](https://open.spotify.com/show/2KwCgAQvDQcNsUx2wOFNR9)

Sofie Hagen talks to people from all walks of life about their ups and downs in this podcast that aims to show people that it's okay to struggle.

## Next steps

Now you have explored resources to help with developing a stronger sense of personal resourcefulness, the next step is to complete our activities to help you set some goals.

[Activities to develop resourcefulness](https://www.york.ac.uk/students/support/success-at-york-toolkit/resourcefulness/activities/)