It's finally Wednesday morning: How will you change the world?

After enduring all these months of loud campaigning, we are left with this fact:

On the day after Election Day, roughly half of Americans wake up more excited and hopeful than usual and the other half wake up more despondent and pessimistic.

On this Wednesday morning, of all mornings, it's easy to heap our hopes and fears onto the political winners. But the truth is that we have just as much power to make changes in our world as we did the day before.

So on the day after Election Day 2012, we want to know what YOU plan to do in the next weeks and months -- maybe in the next four years -- to make some part of your world a better place. Take a minute to tell us how you plan to help out, volunteer, donate, encourage, teach, preach, encourage or inspire.

Share your plans below. You'll help reporters at American Public Media tell the story of what still needs doing after the lawn signs come down. Thank you.

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Regardless of how your chosen candidates fared on Election Day, what do YOU plan to do in the coming days and months to change some part of your world for the better? *

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