For starters: Love people, use money.

The would-be controllers have this completely backwards, and all of us who follow their lead are suffering for it. I have learned already that applying this basic principle is a full-time job because advertising, media of every sort and even legislators are constantly framing all of our reality for the inverse.

Think I'm being "fluffy?"

Try a simple experiment, if only for one day: Consider any negative situation you see around you, in the news, etc. Tell me whether the principle is being applied as I stated it, or whether it has been turned on its head. What might be the result if we analyzed each negative situation in this way and consciously re-framed our thinking about that situation to approach it with the principle turned right-side-up?