I have a hard time getting myself to do things and stick to them. I want to bet against myself; to put down money that I will complete a task, so that the only

I have a hard time getting myself to do things and stick to them. I want to bet against myself; to put down money that I will complete a task, so that the only way to get my money back is to finish what I start. For example, I want to teach myself machine learning but find it hard to concentrate and stick through an online program. I would go to this site, put down "$80" as a bet, "a certificate of completion email for "Machine Learning 101" from stanford.edu" as proof, and "December 30" as a deadline. The website then bills my credit card for $80, and only refunds that amount back if a moderator receives the certificate of completion email from stanford.edu, verifying that I did complete the task. If the website moderator doesn't get the proof by the deadline, I don't get my money back. The task could be anything, but the proof would have to be very difficult to fake, and would require some effort on the part of the website moderator to enforce. I would love to make this service/website myself, as it would help people and be profitable, the only issue is that /I/ want to use the service as well, and by its very nature someone else would have to run it for it to work for me.