My Online Course Graveyard Is Embarrassing I have started somewhere around thirty online courses. I have finished maybe five. That's not a typo — five. The rest are sitting in various platforms, frozen at 12% or 34% or, in one particularly shameful case, 4%. I enrolled, watched one intro video, and never came back. So when I say I'm writing this from experience, I mean it in the worst possible way. I'm not some productivity guru who crushed every course on the first try. I'm the person who knows every single failure mode because I've hit them all personally. Here's the thing though: I eventually figured out what actually works. Not the motivational advice you'll find on Reddit threads. Actual behavioral changes that got me to finish courses on Coursera vs Udemy in 2026: Which Platform Actually Delivers? — platforms I'd previously abandoned dozens of times. These are the exact steps I use now. They're not glamorous. But they work. Step ...