Step 2:  Decide how much you are willing to invest, and how often, so that you can maintain this investment over a long period of time (anything worth doing will take persistence and patience and long-suffering).  Discuss this decision with you family and gain their support.

Step 3:  Commit - make a commitment to yourself, to your family and to the millions of others who have made such incredible commitments in the past, and who will make them now and in the future.

Step 4:  Define - Define your commitment.  Is it 15 minutes a week?  An hour or two a week?  A major event 4 times a year?  A few dollars donation (every single dollar will make a difference in more ways than you might imagine). Volunteer once a year to help out at an event?  Write it down for yourself.  But do not commit for more than is reasonable and that allows you to maintain you commitments to family, work and church.  Also, do not commit any less than you believe is necessary.

Step 5:   Educate yourself - Emotions and passion are wonderful, but they will be most useful if you direct those feelings toward an activity that will help you be an ambassador to your friends and neighbors.  Rational discussion will have a much longer lasting influence on people than inflammatory whining about taxes or a person or whatever.  Pick one topic that excites you for whatever reason. Read up on it in our (soon to be posted) 15-minute all-you-need-to-know selections.  Read the background information linked to from those vignettes.  Read all you can from good, solid and reliable sources. Read opposition articles.  Become fully knowledgeable on that topic.

Step 6: Rinse and Repeat -  redo step 5 with another topic.  You won't become a college professor on any particular topic (although you might be better informed!), but you will be conversant, and when combined with your passion and your love of family and country and freedom, you will become an effective citizen and ambassador for the future.