I’ve just learned, the clerical clothing the Pope and Roman Catholic archbishops wear on their shoulders is a pallium; it’s made of lambswool and is intended to remind the wearer to carry the weak lambs.

Which made me think about the superhero’s cape.

Not the one Superman or Batman wears, but yours, the one representing the difference you’re wanting to make in the world – even if this is one person’s world.

A close up of the cape will show how it’s comprised of your values and dreams: the things which drive you to be the person you are and do the things you do, but look closer and you’ll see your hurts and failures and disappointments woven in there.

‘When you rewrite your values you rewrite your destiny.’

I thought I’d include this line from Michael Heppell’s The Edge because it adds the all-important element of choice.

Sometimes we know what we must do because it’s something we’ve gone through and we want to help others going through the same thing – the wounded healer – and sometimes we know what we must do because we choose it from everything which matters to us.

The important thing is to do something.

You can’t buy your cape off the shelf, it takes form as you act.