Ollys: Money, Skills & Habits for Young Africans

Updated October 2026 Starting a new habit is hard. Sticking with it is harder. If you're a student, a young professional or a freelancer trying to build a better routine, these five morning habits are a simple place to start. They're the ones that have worked for me, and you don't need all five on day one. Why mornings? Your mind is usually at its freshest early in the day, before messages, work and everyone else's demands arrive. Small wins in the morning make the rest of the day easier. Remember that you're building habits, not ticking off tasks. Each one just has to become normal. When you make great habits, they take care of you. Quick summary: the 5 habits Wake up early Drink water first Make your bed Plan your day Add some music 1. Wake up early Are you a morning person or a night owl? We love putting ourselves in one of two boxes, but I believe we become who we choose to become. Here is what matters: you can never manage time....

 Hey, every day is an opportunity if you are up you have this opportunity at your disposal to do whatever you want with it. Now how you do it or what you do is your choice, for the most part, you have to maybe, go to work, do this and that, and so on and so forth. The fact is every day is an opportunity, this opportunity has a limit though for one it has 24 hours in each. Each opportunity comes with that limit you can not take more or less that's it. One person puts it this way "it is not the number of hours, it's what you put in those hours." Now surely I am not here to give you a miraculous formula for the 24-hour day opportunity we have, but I am here to tell you there is a way of dealing with this opportunity and that is it is not the number of hours you work per day, it is working doing what? it is not how busy you are, it is busy doing what? because let us face it you can be busy the whole day and still be doing nothing and you can be busy for an hour and be doi...

 Hey, what a year! surely if you have been in this year, you have seen some shit and I mean it, this is the kind of year that ends, and you say thank you to your God. I mean this year has had its highs and lows but something that will stand out is that it has taught us all some pretty important stuff. I remember vividly how 2019 was coming to an end and how I was looking forward to this year with all the aspirations and vigor to indulge in my activities and endeavors. I set the resolutions and boom the year started.  It picked off well until the pandemic was on our borders and now we had a master at our doorstep and environs dictating how we were going to live from thereon. The pandemic hit out of nowhere and soon what actually mattered the most mattered the least. People had plans to travel, take vacations, do stuff, this and that, but when the pandemic hit it was all about taking care and preserving the precious life they had. Perhaps this was to show us how we have taken wh...

 Hey, surely pandemics have always been with us right?, and as I should also say they are going to be with us. Let us face it there is another virus somewhere waiting to happen and I don't mean to scare anyone but to show what is actually reality. To be honest with ourselves the pandemics that do happen or will happen are usually 99% our faults caused by our negligence, carelessness, and so forth but also through good intentions like trying to experiment with a bunch of drugs to find a better one. Anyway, it should not be an excuse, as pandemics bring all the negative things that we all know yet funny enough through pandemics man has come out more capable and better with a drug to kill that virus and keep the virus in its place so to speak. But as much as pandemics come packed with all the negative stuff we should not forget all the good they come with. what do I mean you ask? pandemics come with their fair share of good talk the Covid 19 pandemic for instance I would say has come ...

Hey, change happens, as they say, "change is inevitable" but there is a transition that we all have to get involved in for it to survive. They say that "people are like sand they either nourish you and help you grow or stunt your growth until you wilt and die." Every one of us wants something good with our own intentions yet it is so evident how easy it is to forget other people are getting theirs too. what am I saying? change will never happen whatever that change is if we are not willing to step up and embrace it with all its shortcomings. Change is for every individual yet it is innate to us so much that it is difficult to accept it. Call it the truth that needs to be faced the ego knows this you want to know the truth but it is afraid of the truth. So often people say "change is difficult" but the truth is it is not, the resistance by our egos and fears is the one resisting to accept of the change. Recently I saw some African countries undergoing some ...

 Hey, now I have heard a very interesting day during my usual escapades on the internet and to be specific "Quora website" I came across I don't want to say dumb question(but I did) where the guy is asking what is the best hack to live your own life the way you want, and still achieve your dreams/plans/happiness/success and so forth? First, let us face it and you can take this to the bank and cash it "there is no shortcut to success" there is however a road to success and a price to be paid which every successful person has paid or rather will have to pay to achieve whatever success one seeks. Consider this example, I do not know if you are familiar with MotoGP racing, if you are not basically it is just a bunch of guys competing in motorbikes going at lightning-fast speeds. Anyway, long story short the competition has had some very good bikers but one that has stood to be the greatest is the Italian Valentino Rossi. During an interview, he was asked how does he...

 Hey, now as we all know people move with time right? how old are you? how long will this take? how far do we need to go? and so forth. Well, as much as these seem like important questions they are not that important. Sounds counter-intuitive, I know here is what I mean well as much as we should have one eye on the clock and another on what we are doing we should not be dwelling these on types of questions. What we should ask is how can I do it smarter? how can I achieve that? how can I be able to solve that? in other words, we should and we will ask questions but what type of question you ask is the key.  If you want to create/produce/accomplish/achieve/gain whatever it is, you should focus on content, quality, and how to do it smarter. Not self-sabotaging with questions and prejudging with queries like how long will this take? how fast can I achieve this? If you want to write a book for example you forget about the book and focus on one topic and narrow it down to writing 10...