While your strategy outlines a broad, long-term approach to achieving your goals, your plans focus on the short-term steps needed to meet the milestones that show progress. Effective plans are specific, actionable, and time-bound. They answer the 'how,' 'when,' and 'who' questions that help you put your strategy into action in your daily life. You’ll likely have multiple plans in place to address different aspects of your strategy at any given time. Below are some key areas where plans can help you succeed.
Academic Achievement Plans
Examples of Things You Might Plan For
Basic Needs
Basic needs like sleep, food, housing, and time are crucial for academic success, impacting cognitive ability, energy, concentration, and motivation.
Community Engagement
Whether in student groups, clubs, or study sessions, engaging in the TXST community is crucial for staying motivated and involved in your studies.
Health & Wellbeing
Health and well-being are key to lifelong success. Prioritize doctor visits, mental health, nutrition, and fitness for lifelong benefits.
Academic Pathway
Your academic pathway is a map to your graduation goal, career launch, and opportunities to seize at TXST to enhance your overall experience.
Individual Connections
Individual connections boost motivation, offer emotional support, and build networks. Prioritize time to nurture these relationships.
Career Vision
Your career vision, whether specific or broad, helps you identify transferable skills and develop personal relevance in your courses.
Keys to Successful Planning
Your plans should be guided by your success strategy and must be specific and adaptable. You’ll likely have multiple plans in place—such as a registration plan for next semester, a study plan that adjusts week by week, a health and wellness plan, a social plan, and a work plan. Not all of your plans will need constant attention or even be formalized, but it’s important to be aware of them.
The key to success is maintaining balance among your plans. If you work with a B3 Success Strategy Consultant, we’ll focus on balancing these plans in four-week periods and reviewing your progress weekly. Whether you follow the B3 model or another approach, what matters most is tracking your progress and adjusting your plans as needed to stay aligned with your success strategy.