Activity Boost Level: Moderate

Sing Hallelujah Believe it or not, a rousing sing song can give you a decent workout – just make sure you belt it out at full volume.

Have a Tinkle If you're musically minded, playing piano is good for toning those muscles – choose something energetic like rag-time or a dramatic classical piece to really feel benefits.

Do a Delia Have a dinner party for six people or more. All that furious cooking chopping and grating will really give you a rush! Have a look at our recipe section for inspiration.

Get Under Hood If you're handy with a screwdriver, mending your car gives your day a bit of extra activity - especially if making heavy repairs.

Milk a Cow Milking by hand can really get your heart pumping. Slight snag – first find your cow.

Activity Boost Level: High

Do It Yourself Both woodwork and plumbing will give you a decent activity boost – now there's a handy way to lose weight and check things of your "to do" list too!

Child's Play Young kids never seem to sit still. Take a leaf out of their book and go play; it's not just great for family bonding, you'll also feel burn after a bit! Try a half hour game of energetic soccer or some backyard gymnastics.

Disco Diva Put on your sparkly skirt and head for dance floor – a good half hour boogie will tone your whole body.

Move House If prospect of changing homes is getting you down, be cheered by fact that shifting and carrying furniture is quite a strenuous workout. So get packing!

Talk to a friend who you find motivating, your doctor or just before you start, do something that you usually find puts you in a better frame of mind, perhaps listen to your favorite up lifting song?

Now, you’re in a really positive frame of mind, okay, perhaps you’re not but let’s put on our best acting performance here and pretend you are and who knows, perhaps you’ll start to feel better anyway by acting as if you are!

Sit down in a quite place and start thinking back when you were a child, what did you enjoy doing? Who were your hero’s? Who did you dress up as? What did you get praised for from your parents, friends, and teachers?

From this exercise, some clues may start to develop to give a hint as to who you wanted to be when you were a kid, when you were less impressionable.

So what changed you? Are these hero’s, these things of fun and pleasure, these praise worthy efforts, still within you and have you bottled them up and they’re now laying just below surface waiting to be released.

Think about it, are answer “hidden” here?

Finding one’s life purpose, is important and cannot be fully explored in a short article like this but I hope from reading this article you may have started thinking about who you really want to be and how you can achieve being that person and have stopped thinking that there is no hope and worrying about, what’s my life all about?