Sometimes the best life advice is the simplest one.
A woman from Boca Raton, Florida shares life advice that she stands by and it's all in your attitude.
Mildred Kirschenbaum is about to turn 100 in August and that hasn't stopped her from living her best life.
The almost centenarian lives alone, still drives, uses online banking to pay her bills, sends text messages to her loved ones on her iPhone and never misses happy hour.
She often doles out advice for living a long and active life in a series of positive yet lively and sassy videos on Tik Tok and Instagram.
"You’ve got to enjoy life," Mildred Kirschenbaum, 99, of Boca Raton, Florida, told Fox News Digital.
"You’re only walking through it once," she added. "If you're up there in years, do yourself — not your children, not your friends, not your world — yourself, a favor: Enjoy everything. Don't sit home and moan and groan and say, ‘all I do is walk to the refrigerator.’ Do something."
For Kirschenbaum, she said attitude is everything. She shared this idea in a video on Instagram that her daughter posted on her behalf and it went viral, garnering over 1.2 million views.
"I want to share a thought about attitude," she tells viewers in the video.
"In August, I will be 100 years old. I have friends that are 20 years younger, 15 years younger — and their attitudes are going to cause them not to survive to my age."
She explains that some people she knows complain about the food they are served or that their children don’t call them enough — but said they have to turn around their negative way of thinking.
"If the food isn’t quite right, so have an extra dessert," Kirschenbaum told Fox News Digital.
"If you only hear from your children once a week, that’s fine. If they call you once a week, then call them once a week and be grateful they are enjoying life. Look at the positive side of life. I think that’s what got me this far," she added.
Kirschenbaum said her advice is pretty common and practical and she does not really think her wisdom comes with age.
"If you're not smart when you're young, you only get dumber," she said. "Does that make sense?"
At 99, Kirschenbaum lives on her own, by choice, she said. She has a son living in Orlando, Florida, and a daughter who lives in New York.
Her daughter, Gayle Kirschenbaum, 60, a writer and Emmy award-winning filmmaker, encouraged her mother to record her nuggets of wisdom that she has started sharing on her own social media about a year ago.
"When we were celebrating her 99th last August on a cruise, I shot this video of her and it got a lot of attention," Gayle Kirschenbaum told Fox News Digital.
"That is when I decided to focus my account on her and our relationship and tips for longevity and forgiveness," Gayle Kirschenbaum added.
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Source: Fox News