Our Flow Note
Hey guys,
Some time ago — maybe half a year ago, maybe a few weeks ago — you joined this list (This is us - DJ LAB PRO / VG DJ LAB!)
As much as I really do like newsletters, I only like very specific kinds of newsletters.
I don’t like fluff.
I don’t like high-selling things.
And I really need to feel that what I’m reading is handy.
When we decided to launch this newsletter, I told my team two things were important to me:
Keep it short.
Most of us are neurodivergent, doing three jobs to keep our passion going, travelling, or living a “normal” life alongside a DJ life.Keep it very useful.
By that I mean looking very deeply into my own experience — all the years I spent in the music industry as a DJ, curator, booker and entrepreneur
The idea is simple:
Every week, you get one small thing you can take for yourself.
As we’re getting closer to the end of the year, I want to talk about a feeling I know very well.
The feeling that I didn’t make enough.
That I could have done better.
That somehow life pulled me away from something extremely important — something that should probably be in the first place.
Maybe you felt very, very busy, but in the end it wasn’t actually productive, and it didn’t really get you anywhere near the place you wanted to be.
I still feel like I’m juggling things, trying to find time for what matters.
So today I want to show you a very simple tool.
THE DRILL (5 minutes)
It’s called the Eisenhower Matrix.
Most people use it to queue tasks and organize to-do lists.
I use it differently.
I use it to look at where my attention and energy actually go.
What you need to do is simple.
Draw four squares — or just look at the image above.
Then start placing things into these four areas:
urgent and important
urgent and not important
not urgent and important
not urgent and not important
I’ll leave you here for a moment.
Take a 5-minute break and do this quickly, without overthinking it.
Then come back.
Are you back?
Here’s the key part.
Don’t focus too much on anything outside of “not urgent and important.”
This is usually where things like:
finishing a record
starting a YouTube channel
preparing content where you talk about music
long-term ideas that really matter to you end up living.
Always important.
Almost never urgent.
Forever waiting.
Most of us are drained by everyday life — work, family, partners, children, animals, responsibilities, constant firefighting.
So we postpone what matters most.
And later never really comes.
Your turn
Write to [email protected] and tell me one thing that showed up for you in not urgent and important.
One sentence is enough.
I read every email.
What’s coming next
Normally, you’ll get these notes once a week.
But before the end of the year, I want to do something slightly different.
Over the next emails, I’ll turn this into a small, 5-step process — a kind of mini-course — to help you work with procrastination around the things that matter most, without forcing discipline or adding pressure.
This was step one: seeing clearly.
Behind the LAB stage
We’re slowly entering the final stage of our DJ LAB PRO project, funded with the support of the European Union.
At the same time, we’re preparing a new, expanded and improved edition — and we’re genuinely excited about what’s coming next.
We’re also developing in-person workshops in Gdańsk — big shout-out to Artur —
and continuing Open Decks at Klub Prozak, thanks to Iwona.
We honestly can’t wait to move into the next projects designed to support emerging DJs.
VG