I M doin it wrong

The biggest impediment to my playing good chess is my playing too much chess, I am beginning to think. I want to rip through 20 games a night, and occasionally analyzing one on this blog (and despite my earlier promises, I notice myself doing more wins than losses) isn't nearly enough. It's enough to get a little better. But I want to take this seriously, and that requires a serious plan of action and study.

Formulated from advice I've read in some web sites and forums, I've decided to come up with a chess training regimen. I'm not going to go by day or anything like that, I'm going to play in "cycles". Whenever I've done one step, I'll move on to the next. When all the steps are complete, I will cycle back to the beginning, but I don't want to do any skipping around (outside of special circumstances). Here we go:

Step 1: Play 3 blitz games, preferred time control of 2 5.

Step 2: Play 3 standard games, preferred time control of at least one hour average play

Step 3: Annotate all six games, going over the openings in Modern Chess Openings and seeing what the computer thinks.

Step 4: Find five annotated games of "expert" or higher and read them. (Full grandmaster game annotations are usually way over my head).

This should slow me down and force me to play "correctly." I've also bought a small, cheap chess board at Wal-Mart to let me try playing games out in real space, which I hope will improve my visualization.