A lot of what the author has to say is pretty obvious, but becuase its obvious these things are easily overlooked or simply skipped. de la Maza's book is basically 3 steps:

1. Do chess vision drills. These are micro drills that the author likens to 'throwing free throws in basketball.' They're easy, but they help improve board vision. You do these repeatedly for several weeks. I can elaborate on these exercises if you're interested.

2. Go through CT-ART Using the '7 Circles.' I already described what this is like in my first post, but if you'd like to see my personal schedule to clarify - I can provide that.

3. Create a thinking technique, and in that technique you set up a system that forces you to look for the tactical punches that are ingrained in your head during over the board play.

I just got back from club about an hour ago, and I can already report that I'm playing better than before I started the program. I suppose this shouldn't be surprising - because I've been studying tactics at least an hour (closer to 2) every day for 4 weeks now. I'll keep this thread updated with my experiences with de la Maza's program.