Now that you know more about the Y2K issue and have read some ideas about how to prepare, you face a choice. According to contributor Tom Atlee, 'The choice goes like this:

'a) We can step out of our own personal business-as-usual so we can respond really creatively to this situation, or,

'b) We can wait until the situation is worse and we have less time, fewer resources, and more chaos, with barely enough energy to keep our heads above water.'

So go ahead, start now. The things you'll do to prepare yourself and your community for Y2K will lead to the kind of fearless, engaged, connected and committed life you really want to live anyway.

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Y2K Citizen's Action Guide is funded by generous individual and foundation donors. It is one of several community-organizing, education, and awareness initiatives we're contemplating. If you'd like to help us with a tax-deductible contribution, send checks (and suggestions for worthy Y2K causes) made out to the 'Citizens League/Y2K,' and mail it to: Y2K Project, c/o The Citizens League, 708 S. 3rd Street, Suite 500, Minneapolis, MN 55415.

If you want help organizing your community, contact The Cassandra Project (http://www.cassandraproject.org/home.html).

If you find that your area has no community preparedness groups yet, and you'd like to start one, send an email to Webpals, an organization that connects people interested in Y2K, at: language@webpal.org. Their web page is at www.webpal.org/list.htm.