# The Witness Stand: Remove Before You Add

> Worksheet by Charles Botensten, from the letter “Natural Law and Happiness: Remove Before You Add” (https://icharles.com/articles/natural-law-happiness). Free to use and change.

Every area of my life where I moved closer to natural law got better.

1. Sleep, food, movement, relationships, work: which one is furthest from how you were made?
2. What has that distance cost you in the last 30 days? Write a number, a name or a date.
3. What have you added to fix it: the purchase, the app, the pill?
4. Write the line you tell yourself that keeps it in place, like “It's just a game on Sunday.”
5. Deep down, you already know. What is the one thing to remove first?
6. Where and when will you do your one-minute review each day?
7. Pick one: an action with a date, an if-then, or a block on your calendar.

Source: https://icharles.com/library/the-witness-stand-remove-before-you-add