Is there a list of what u should focus on?

Before you move check on your king's safety, check if you have any hanging or underdefended pieces, and then look over the entire board for any threats. If there aren't any immediate threats your ready to move. Don't forget to check how your opponent is going to punish your move before you move your piece. Anyway this is what I do.

there are several lists many have to show good consistent and methodical thought process...

Kotov's list works well

1.  Prevent checkmate at all costs

2. Observe and account for all checks.

3.  Look for loose pieces.  both yours that might need defended and within his position

4.  What is the Last move do?  what threat does it make.

5a.  Analyze an attack; and be willing to spend significant amount of time preparing for one

5b.  arrange your peices to give them scope and coordination

5c.  prioritize a defense if the opponent can or decides to attack and make sure your advantage cannot be swept away with his attack.

if you look, I'm sure you can find a more precise wording of these principles- but this is what I have memorized. 

The basics of each phase of the game

Opening:

Follow the Opening principles:

1.      Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5

2.      Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key

Ø  Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack.

Ø  Move pieces not pawns.

3.      Castle

4.      Connect your rooks

Ø    By move 12, you should have connected your Rooks, or be about to do so.

Middle game:

When you have completed the Opening Principles, you are now at the middle game.  Now you need to formulate a middle game plan.  The middle game is a very complicated part of a chess game.  A simple way to develop a middle game plan is to perform the following steps.

1.      Scan your opponents 5^th, and 6^th ranks (3^rd, and 4^th if your black)

2.      Look for weak pawns, and or weak squares.

Ø  Weak pawns and squares are Pawns, and squares that cannot be defended by another Pawn.

Ø  Knights are excellent pieces on weak squares.

Ø  When deciding on weak squares, and weak Pawns to attack, the closer to the center the better

End game:

Start with the basics:

1.      Learn basic mates – KQ vs. K, KR vs. K, KRR vs. K

2.      Learn Opposition, and Key Squares

3.      Learn basic King and Pawn endings

Pre Move Checklist

1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.

2. Look for forcing moves: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.

3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.

4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.

5. After each move by your opponent, ask yourself: "What is my opponent trying to d

Nice...

Good advice guys. 

Yeah it's important to consider all checks and captures, no matter how redundant they may seem. Before each move I'm always on the lookout for weakened squares and color complexes, either mine or my opponents as well as protected squares that one of us could post a knight on. It's also important to play with a plan, even if it's just to win control of a square or to attack a weakness hoping to expose another. Anyway there is so much to learn in this game, good luck 

Edit: Diakonia beat me to it while I was typing lol 

The advantages of copy and paste :-)

your getting your lists messed up.

thats what some people advocate studying.

if you thought only tactics during a chess game- against someone good,they would simply win positionally until defeat was inevitable.

Different people need improvement in different areas.  I see that you're only gotten 21 of 50 very-easy-level tactics problems right.  Note that you could (and should) be working more per day and I like the setup for learning from the problems much better at chesstempo.com. where you can work many problems for free.

So I agree with 2Q1C: tactics, tactic, tactics.

Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7192.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf

Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf

Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/excerpts/OpeningsForAmateurs%20sample.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf