What if you stopped worrying about what you can't control and built a routine for what you can? My husband, senior systems engineer Grant Comeau, shows how kata works at work, at the pool table, in the gym, and at home.

Grant has spent more than 25 years in semiconductor manufacturing and is a master-level billiards player. We talk about kata, the Lean idea of repeatable practice you build until it becomes second nature, from Mike Rother's book Toyota Kata. And we get into the four boxes Grant learned in a college class: what you can do something about, what you can't, what matters, and what doesn't. They echo the Stoic dichotomy of control from Epictetus and Stephen Covey's circles of concern and influence.

In this episode:

• How a kid who wanted to build robots decides what needs attention and what is just noise

• The college class and the four boxes

• His kata before a billiards tournament versus everyday practice

• Health routines built around what is within your control

• Which routines work in a house with six of us, counting the cat and the dog, and when to let it go

Perfect for anyone in Lean, continuous improvement, or operations who wants to bring that thinking home.

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