I spend hours on hours each day on my phone— just like any other 20-something-year-old kid. It keeps me updated with life, distracts me from life as well. One thing I love to do with my phone is to write notes in it. Most people write physical notes and reminders on paper, but I make great use of the notes widget on my phone. In this widget, I have a subset titled, “Wisdom and Thoughts.” I think so much throughout the day! I sometimes feel that I think too much. As millennials, we probably all do. It seems that we have so much pressure on us at this point in life to become someone and something great. Personally, my thoughts are usually just about the overwhelming vicissitudes of my life. Although most of these notions end up on my Twitter (@Jayb34_), I feel that they’d make for useful fortune cookie tips. Even though some may not fit on the inch-wide piece of cheap paper inside the fortune cookies you get, I can still share these aphorisms with you.

My thoughts usually are collected from reading, and obviously life experiences, also relationship experiences, etc. I begin with my favorite:

1. Imagine that you were deposited $86,400 into your personal account each day and we could use this money however we wanted to. The catch is, at the end of each day, the money would not accrue. It would be cleared out and the next day a new, fresh, $86,400 would come in and whatever money you don’t spend is gone forever.

This is how life is presented to us. We get 86,400 seconds in each day to make our dreams come true. We are allotted that time to make anything happen, but at the end of each day, the time unused is lost and gone forever until we get the deposit the next day. So, let's make the most out of each day.

Imagine that we didn’t have the geniuses of technology to bless us with the speed and expedition of easily accessible everything. And life had a slow Wi-Fi. We would learn to be so patient.

2. Treat life like the Wi-Fi is slow. Be anxious for nothing at all. Everything has its day, time and place. Relax.

3. There’s so much noise in the atmosphere that people struggle to remember one thing from the next (from phones, to internet), let alone natural priorities.

4. Appreciate everything.

So simple, but an idea that gets buried in everyday mess.

5. Starve the ego.

6. Master your heart. Deal with your demons. Clear out inequities. And then, you can love properly.

7. Turn your mess into your message (the theme of Robin Roberts book “Everyone’s Got Something.”)

8. You can’t bring people where you’ve never gone. You can’t coach someone on how to deal with heartbreak efficiently if you’ve never had your heart broken. You can give them your best advice, but you can’t speak directly from experience. So, you have to go through some challenges and be pushed to the edge of your comfortability at times. All of which you go through supplies you later with strength, wisdom and knowledge for someone else who will need to hear it from you.

9. In our society, everyone wants to live a long time but no one wants to be old.

My last one is a mantra that I have been living by and I feel good to end these fortunes on this thought. When it comes to making new friends – well, I like to think of it as attracting energy—so, when attracting energy, I like to be my 100 percent self 100 percent of the time. I know that I am different. I’m not like a lot of the people I hang with, and you might not be either, and that’s okay! I don’t enjoy being around someone who tries to fit in well with a certain social group or someone who consciously tries to not bump into the walls of the world. So, for my last fortune cookie wisdom:

10. Be different, be a little weird. Don’t try to fit into the societal mold, please. Be yourself, because everyone else is taken.