Closure is the positive felling you get when you finish a task. Lack of closure results from the 1.________ panicked feeling that you still have a million things to do. One way to obtain closure is divide a task into 2.________ manageable goals, list them, and check them off your list as you finish them. For example, suppose your historic teacher assigns three chapters to be 3.________ read. If your goal is to read all three chapters, you may feel discouraged if you don’t complete the reading at one time. A more effective way to complete the assignment is to divide the reading into smaller goals by thinking each chapter as a separate 4.________ goal. Thus you experience success as you complete. each chapter. While you have completed the overall 5.________ goal, you know you have progressed toward it. A second block to obtaining closure is unfinished business. You may have several tasks with the same deadline. If changing from one task to another serves 6. ________ as a break, changing tasks too often waste time. 7. ________ Each time you switch, you lose momentum. You may be unable to change mental gears fast enough. You may find yourself thinking about the old project when you should be concentrating in the new one. In 8. ________ addition, when you return to your first task, you have to review where you are and what steps were 9. ________ left for you to finish. Often you solve this problem by determining how much time you have free to work. If the time available is short (i.e. ,an hour or less), you need to work on only one task. Alternate tasks when you have more time. Completing one task or a large portion of a task attributes to the feeling of closure. 10.______
