Ollys: Money, Skills & Habits for Young Africans

Making money online has become more of a buzzword it sounds like the new trend in town to get into yet as simple as it sounds making money online is just like any other career out here. It requires discipline, commitment, and passion (yes it's that serious) in whatever it is that one is doing in exchange for those cha-chings. Updated November 2026: I’ve added practical ways to earn online today, including AI training work So before we go into how to make money online? let's put some basics down about making money online  1. It's not a get-rich-quick trick Think of it this way making money online has a seller and a buyer just like a typical marketplace, only that here you are not meeting person to person the difference or advantage though is that here you can sell to anyone as long as they are online. 2. it is not an easy escape Just like any other career making money online entails doing something or selling a product or service of value and getting paid for it. So just lik...

 Have you ever tried to create or form a habit? well if you have you know how hard it is to start a new habit leave alone sticking with the habit. This six-letter word can take you to unimaginable heights in the aspects of what you can accomplish and in the same way it can drag you to the gutters of life with bad habits. we cannot equate every aspect of our lives with habits but you will agree how we live our lives is for the most part controlled by habits. Talk of the kind of relationships, food, business, and life in general that we lead. Habits; are gained practices and molds systematically pursued until they turn practically unintentional. With this definition, look at the words "practically unintentional." This means that the habit is ingrained in you it is relatively uncontrollable. Concerning bad habits like procrastination, watching porn, junk eating, and so forth, it is so destructive. But with positive habits, this can be really, really good.   Basically, positive h...

 Hey, have you ever thought that the reason you are struggling with certain things in your life is because of something else other than you? Maybe how you are brought up affected how you view relationships, how you were treated in certain situations has made you change the way you view things, maybe a breakup made you declare there is no love out there, and so forth. I am sure almost every one of us has. Surely what any of us has gone through affects how we view and define these "things" in our life. Talk of relationships, money, and life in general. I mean it is only natural, We are wired the way our brains are created to be for us, to protect us, and thus if anything happens against what is expected it is a cause of alarm. In other words, if for instance what you have done before failed, it's only natural that when you have a chance to do the same endeavor you become alerted and you end up hesitating to do it, or not doing it at all. These "things" that do hap...

  Have you ever thought of achieving something? obviously, almost every single human has. Anyway if you have then you might know a thing or two about winning and what his brother called failure. Certainly, people who have tried to win have either won or lost.   Winning in anything either sport, business, goals, and so forth has one thing in common losing . Look at a winning team, a winning business, a winning individual, and the like. With a little bit of investigation, you will come to find out that they have lost in their practice and I might add they might have lost big time. Let me give you an example the successful company called Amazon, in 2014 produced a phone called the fire phone some analysts believed it would turn out to be a revolutionary type of product but a year later, the same phone was pulled out of production. Long story short it was a failure, and guess what was the cost? a whopping $170 million. Now as much as that sounds shocking the founder and CEO o...

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...