The quickest way to speed things up is to get some media from someones tank that is already cycled (media being some of the contents of their filter - either sponge, ceramic hoops etc). You can read up everything you need to know about cycling and everything else for beginners on this link in this forum
+1 to what gilli stated. Do you currently have a tank? If so, you could safely move across one quarter of mature media in exchange for the same amount in new media.
Definately the easiest way .