# Develop personal purpose

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

Personal or emotional purpose involves defining your wider life goals.

In other words, are there skills you want to develop? Are there physical/spiritual goals that you want to achieve?

## Videos

Video

### [How to stop screwing yourself over](#uoy_modal_youtube_embed_977877_1)

Mel Robbins talks you through how to get yourself out of a rut and start living a meaningful life in this TED Talk.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7E973zozc&t=1s>

Video

### [The importance of having goals in life](#uoy_modal_youtube_embed_977877_2)

Christian Troger discusses how setting goals changed is life around from emotional and financial collapse, and how you too can use goals to enact even the smallest changes in your life.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjc6AhW6I1U>

## Podcasts

[The Tim Ferris Show](https://open.spotify.com/show/5qSUyCrk9KR69lEiXbjwXM)

Did you enjoy the TED Talk delivered by Tim Ferriss? Well you are in luck, here he is in podcast form! In this show he works with world class performers from all areas and breaks down the steps they took to get where they are!

## Further reading

- [Forging your own path](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7qc7nb) (BBC Bitesize)
- [Setting realistic goals](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdxdt39) (BBC Bitesize)

## Next steps

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

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