Well, this would be my plan:
1: When the web starts with rumors about anything that resembles walkers, is time to prepare. You can't look over these kind of news, knowing about the situation before it gets to your location is key to your survival.
2: Time to make a plan, you don't know how much time you have for SHTF, so you have to be quick: Pack all the things you'd take if something happens. If things didn't go south already, start stockpiling food, water and medicine, when the chaos arrives, you will not have the oportunity. Remember: The first thing that would go out is electricity, so gas and water becames scarse, and food will not get restocked.
3: Once the riots starts, people will loot stores and start killing each other, law enforcement would be overpowered, and the goverment will fall. Without any law and order, you will be a target, so you have to be able to protect yourself. The first week, you should stay bugging in until everything stops, probably a week or so. This will increase your chances of surviving.
4: The walkers will get to your location, this is the time to study their behavior and if you live in the city make a bug out plan to move to a remote location. If you live in the country side, you will have some advantage, and if you want, you can start making your fortress.
5: Once the population decreases, and walkers flood everything, survivors will start to get desperate, and in consequence, they will became dangerus. This is time for you to think if you want to open your place to new people, or became a lone wolf. Both have their pros and cons. For example, a lone wolf would be more stealthy, consume less suplies and easier to move, but it would be more vulnerable. And a large group will be better when you have to make chores, you will have more chances of getting people with valuable skills, and be safer for loot runs, but a large group is harder to keep fed, and the decision making progress would be difficult.
6: If you can make it the first months, you can start building your skillset. Farming, fishing, hunting, etc, are things that you will have to know to survive. So, time will no longer be a thing, live every second as if it was the last.
7: Just, survive. You will meet new people, good and bad, you will kill and you will have to live with it, you will lose friends and family, but you will survive.
Don't trust blindly, keep your head low, and if someone with a mullet tries to talk to you in private, RUN.