What to do after the opening

I feel like one of my big problems with my game that I can't figure out is what to do after an opening.  I just played a game against a computer, and after 7 moves I was thinking "Now what?"  I know that this sounds stupid, but what does my train of thought need to be to progress?  Not just in this game, but in general.  This is where I got stuck.  Thanks in advance for any help given!

Sorry, I messed up inserting my moves. Here is the opening. Thanks !

What opening do you play? That generally dictates a plan to follow!!!

Re1 is always good. Adds more attack to your e pawn push - gives another attacker on your e4 move, which can be followed by e5 to pin his two minor pieces.  Be careful about Bd3, if situation is right HE can move HIS e pawn sometimes and do the same thing to you, pin YOUR 2 minor pieces.(knight and bishop).  Qc2 is often good and Bd2 perhaps.  This connects your rooks which is almost always good. 

    But before that, you've almost got a mate going with a bishop sacrifice.  Bxh7 Kxh7,  Ng5+ Kg8, Qh5 threatening mate, (all this is only if you can get rid of his N on f6. 

the idea of the nimzo and queens indian defence is to prevent e4 from being played.
But in this position e4 can be played with tempo because it threatens the fork of the knight and the bishop, after Bb4 you have a series ok decent moves, including advancing the e pawn again or protecting it with re1.

To solve your problems, instead of memorising moves, understand the plan of the opening, what its trying to acheive. Then you wont be lost.

Okay before playing that opening you must study first the basic ideas and plans of that opening theory. e.g the pawn structure that will arise, possible trap, black or white's possible moves etc. And now you can form a plan by what will be the position occur in the game. Also positional chess will also helps you improve your assesment on the game. Helps you analyse the position.

Not also the plans of yours but also what will be the possible plans for White and Black this is called prophylactic thinking.

After opening u must find plan. Without this u probably lost game.

Find some weak pawns, squares, things that would be under attack. Move your pieces to better positions etc.

Interestingly enough, Silman has a course on Chess Mentor with the same title: "Now What?".

First of all, you don't understand the openings you're playing or you'd at least have a clue as to what to do out of the opening.  Second of all, you need to play open games exclusively unless your opponent stops you from doing so, or your rating goes up several hundred pts.  Open games = 1.e4 all the time as White and 1...e5 as Black vs 1.e4, and 1...d5 vs 1.d4 which is technically a semi-open game but that's life in the big city. This advice comes from a famous GM, RIchard Reti, in his classic work Masters of the Chessboard. You're going to need (or want, hopefully) a lot more advice than this, but hey, every little bit helps. And read these blogs:

http://blog.chess.com/NimzoRoy/chess-opening-principles

http://blog.chess.com/NimzoRoy/endgame-faqs  (YES, ENDGAME principles often apply to middlegames and even openings as well!)

Thanks for the help.  I appreciate all the the tips, and am going to look into them soon!

I just grab the tomatoes growing outside my home. It works for me!

I'm having somewhat similar problems, I often find it difficult to come up with a concrete plan, or find small moves to strategically improve my position in the middle game.

Don't know if you're a fan of Silman, but he has a number of strategy courses on Chess Mentor that address this including the very difficult, but comprehensive 300 lesson "Roots of Positional Understanding".  

I took your advice and did one of those on chessmentor. Pretty good and hard. This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about, going to do the others soon

Well 1st things you got to do is follow up with a plan once you make your 1st move that dictates what you are going to do. 2nd after you do that the rest is simple like many people say Develop! Develop your pieces and then after that if your opening corresponce to what your opponent does or develop a plan to counter attack it.. For example if you do a ruy lopez you either go for a closed position or open depends cuz the ruy lopez is pretty complicated opening. But still the ruy lopez is a real good beginners opening.

Thanks everyone for the help.  My game is getting a little better, but I still make mistakes.  At least now I know how to keep improving!  Thanks again!