Project Love: How Quincy Changed the World

By Martin Zen

What would happen if I decided to only do things out of love for a whole month? Even things I dont really like to do? And if a whole lot of people would do the same thing, how would our behavior change? Would the world be a better place? Would we have more peace? More understanding? More happiness and meaning in our lives?

Quincy turns these questions over and over in his mind and then hes sure: I want to start a project, a project called Inspired by Love One Month.

And thats how Quincy starts to change the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Apr 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504329750

Martin Zen

In this story, Martin Zen works from his thousands of conversations with different people about the essentials of life. Martin Zen has been advising people for more than twenty years in the areas of leadership, communication, and crisis management. He is the author of several non-fiction books.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-2974-3 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015904090

Balboa Press rev. date: 04/14/2015

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Contents

The story

The Author

The Characters

Quincy – Project Love

Peter – Falling from Virtual into Real Life

Mirella – The Best Present, Doubled!

Joe – Inspired to a New Life

Thomas – Out of the Rat Race … and Back?

Clara – Living Green

Finn – The Answer

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The story

Fifteen-year-old Quincy had an idea for a project: Inspired by Love—One Month. What could he do if everything he did was based on love? With his friend’s help, he decided to start the project. Everyone could participate. All they had to do was act out of love: in life, at work, in school, during sports, and during free time. Bit by bit, many people would change their own worlds into something good, something better. And the project would continue on and on.

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The Author

Martin Zen has been advising people on leadership, communication, and crisis management for over twenty-five years. He likes to play music and paint during his free time. He is the author of multiple non-fiction books. Published 2014 with Balboa Press, I Am – Living with six people, is Martin Zen’s first book about Quincy, his friends and how they change the world.

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For everyone

who wants to make the world

a more livable – and lovable - place.

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The Characters

Quincy, fifteen years old, has an idea for a project: Inspired by Love—One Month. And he finds many people along the way who help him.

Peter, twenty-four, is a lonely nerd who recently moved into the apartment building at 9 Berry Street and is suddenly catapulted into a completely new world.

Mirella, twenty-nine, is the teacher who mentors Quincy from the beginning of his project. She will soon be the mother of twins.

Joe is a thirty-six-year-old consultant when his life collapses. The time he spends with Quincy working on the project helps him get back up on his feet. And he discovers the meaning of his life.

Thomas is Quincy’s father. The forty-three-year- old investment consultant is a workaholic and loses the balance in his life once again, which negatively affects his relationship with Lara.

Clara, fifty-seven, is the city counselor for education and, in Quincy’s opinion, is the best politician there is. She sees to it that the project for an ideal school begins.

Finn and Mia, both seventy-one, live on the top floor of the apartment building where the roof terrace has become a regular meeting place. Finn is Quincy’s wise advisor.

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Quincy –

Project Love

I was at my favorite spot in the woods that I had been going to regularly—to sit on the tree stump that was my seat and listen to the stillness, the wind in the treetops, and the droning of insects. As I slowly breathed in the pleasant smell of moist earth and the fragrance of the larches and scrub pines—rare at this altitude—I felt the lightness that comes when I am completely at one with nature. I could feel the center of my being, as if there were no more borders between time, space, and me. A lot had happened recently, and a lot of changes were in the wings. Life is like a stream—or like the little creek near my favorite spot that babbles on in the background like music.

Lisa died a few months ago. She knew exactly when she was going to die, and so did I. After our last conversation, I went to my room and waited for morning. I was very calm, because she had prepared herself well and went peacefully