Board Analysis Process?

For you expert chess players, is there a "process" you follow when analyzing a board and various placement of pieces?  In other words, for ADD guys like me, it helps to follow a process sometimes to stay focused.  Do you look at each piece, one at a time, and see what it is attacking, what it is defending, etc?  Do you start with your King, and see it's defensive position?  Do look at squares, and analyze their relative value on the board, etc?

From this link:

http://chessconfessions.blogspot.com/2006/12/chess-thinking-process.html

... see these ideas:

1. Evaluate the present position to determine strengths and weaknesses of each side.

2. Pick candidate moves that will increase a strength or eliminate a weakness.

3. Analyze the variation trees of the candidate moves, and pick the candidate with the best evaluation in all possible continuations.

4. Blundercheck.

5. Move.

They resemble in some fashion, Kotov's suggestions from Think Like a Grandmaster. However, many top flight players have poo-pooed this process and suggested that the real process is much messier.

My process is usually: a) ignore my opponent's last move or any new threat, b) take a sip of coffee, c) make whatever move my mouse can most easily implement, and finally, d) make an ugly face after my inevitable loss. 

I usualy stare at the board while having music in my head and then make a move. Works fine for me.

But its nothing i recommend others and i sometimes wonder if i could be stronger if i actualy thought a bit.

In the opening you should not use much time (if you know the opening). But right when you get out of book moves you need to think a lot to make a good plan.

You should think more about plans when most pieces are not attacking eachother (improving position). If many pieces are attacking eachother you should think about tactics. But on low lvl chess i think you should focus on not giving away any pieces to your opponent.

Always look what your opponent left behind (also before you make a move, check what YOU leave behind) and try to understand the reason why he did the move. Whenever your opponent makes a move he is weakening something (especialy if he moves a pawn) but he might also be threatening something.

Also never trust your opponent. If he is making a sacrifice dont assume its good. If you trust your opponents evaluation because he have a higher rating, you have already lost the game. You gotta challenge your opponent. Sometimes you gotta make moves based on intuition, it can be very hard to calculate some moves and even grand masters admits that they often have no idea if the sacrifice they made was good. You get a feeling for good moves when you have played a lot of games. I dont think there is a fast way to think better. You just have to play a lot of games...

Btw by "ADD" you mean Attention deficit disorder? I got it myself and im a pretty good player. I think ADD is making me a very unstable chess player. I beat 2000+ elo players quite often(strongest was 2300) but if i have a bad day i can lose vs 1500 players. If the game is not fun i tend to play poorly. I also have problems memorizing openings (its boring). 

Play more and you get better. There is some guy who said that if you wanna be good at something you have to spend 10000 hours on it. I think this is very true for chess (with some very talented exceptions).

Hahahah yes. This is me.