@ Ylblai2
You just play and play and play. Improvement will come.
I firmly believe that without a decent understanding of what you want to end up with, you cannot begin to understand how to set up a game.
A good player knows how to avoid certain structures that will always come back to hunt him in endgames. Or to exchange the right pieces not to end up with a bad bishop. etc.etc.
Of course over time one will recognize that stuff on autopilot.
Work on your openings later. When you do that early on in your chess life it's just a waste of time since you're just memorizing moves without understanding the underlying concepts.
I read through an opening book and translate all the key variations I am choosing to learn into a format I can read. Here's a sample of the format I can read easily for opening variations:
This is just a tiny slice of some stuff I studied a while back from a book.
Anyway, I read the book, typing out variations into this sort of indented outline format. Then I take each discrete line and find some model games for them either from the book or from a database. I study each game, taking notes as I go (adding them to the file I'm working on as footnotes). Then, I add the lines to Chess Position Trainer (and/or Lucas Chess's Personal Opening Guide). Here, I let it schedule daily practice in recalling the lines. After I've got them pretty well burned into my brain, I go back and re-read the section of the book that pertains to the lines I'm learning. The improvement in my understanding of what the book was saying about the lines is significant after having studied multiple games in each line, and having committed it all to memory. I always feel this second read-through of the book kind of "seals" it into my head. Only after this step do I ever try to play the lines.
That's just how I do it, though.