Data collection and analysis are essential in evidence-based applied behavior analysis. Behavior Analysts use data to make informed decisions about future actions. Being objective helps you see if your efforts are effective.

Are you living someone else’s values?

Experiencing negative feelings and thoughts despite doing all the right things?

Explore what’s important to you. Start with deciding who you want to be.

Often our environment, thoughts and feelings, and physiological reactions can trigger additional thoughts and feelings and actions without us even being aware.

Observe and explore the contexts where they are experiencing difficult thoughts or engaging in actions they wish they didn’t.

We decide we want to do something, maybe run a half marathon! But then you never start running, and every time a run comes up for registration, you tell yourself you’re not ready (because you haven’t ben running), so you can’t do this one, but the next one, definitely.

Setting a goal is more than just making a statement, “I’ll run a half marathon!” Use this worksheet to help set your own SMART goal.

Find yourself not engaging in actions we’ve promised ourselves and others we will do.

Are there things you can do to set up future you for better success?

Explore how your environment may be impacting your behaviours.

Use Tracking Sheets to track both effects and side effects of medication and therapeutic doses.