How many times have you checked your e-mail lately?

How many times have you rearranged your desk?

Perhaps you've decided to make a few phone calls to friends you haven't talked to in a while?

Everyone has something called "The Comfort Zone." It's only human for us to do whatever we can to stay in The Comfort Zone. Whether that is cleaning up your office, checking your e-mail or an innumerable number of other things, The Comfort Zone will hold you back from achieving your true potential.

Look at it another way - every moment you spend doing those things that you're comfortable with could be another moment you spend honing skills that will drive you to success.

Finally, a simple comprehensive service is available for both care recipient and provider of elder care services. Quality Care Options (QCO) serves all those involved in elder care, including discharge planners, social workers, physicians, adult children of seniors, employers with a unique work/life benefit service, and of course, senior.

Quality Care Options launched as a method to advocate for right of all seniors to receive excellent care and to most importantly, remain safe in receiving of that care.

To accomplish this goal, Quality Care Options, has developed industry’s first consumer driven survey process. “Who better to attest to your ability to provide quality care for our seniors, day in and day out, than actual seniors that have used (or are currently using) your service?” says Barbara Mascio, founder and president of QCO.

Businesses that serve senior and/or seniors’ family include a variety of both medical and non-medical resources. A senior may need assistance at home with light housekeeping and may need sidewalks cleared of snow. A senior may need nursing or rehabilitation care and may need a maid service or a financial planner skilled with elder care issues.

The senior, or most likely, adult child of senior is tasked with discerning between multiple businesses available. What sets a business apart? How does average consumer choose between one home care or one assisted living facility over another?

“Any business that has been awarded Certification as a Senior Approved Service can be trusted and we feel quite comfortable putting our reputation on line recommending these services to our clients,” says Ms. Mascio.