1. Your early stages of a game should be used for expanding your economy as much as possible, even if you plan on rushing. Have worker units queued up all the time until at least your 2nd supply depot (or overlords, or whatever). If you know you want to make a lot of robotic units in your strategy, plan accordingly, start collecting vespene gas early. You should also make sure that you scout your opponent, this is VERY important. Don't do it as soon as the game starts, but around the time you think they'll start creating their millitary buildings, send a worker unit to their base. Based on the units and buildings that they're creating, you can predict what sort of strategy they're going to use, and you can then try and counter it or prepare yourself. Bear in mind that they will probably scout you too.
2. Start making millitary units and decide if you're going to try and rush, or play defensively. After scouting, make units to counter what they're using. I suggest you take a look at some guides of how to counter certain units because I can't list them all here. Don't forget about your economy, if you've got a lot of minerals/gas piled up this is a BAD thing unless you're saving up for something. Always try to spend your resources. If you've got too much of one take some workers off, etc. Also don't forget about supply depots, you should NEVER run out of supply, make them in advance or otherwise you'll waste a lot of time waiting for them to build before you can make more units.
3. You should be well into combat at this stage, but keep making millitary units. You should consider expanding and building another base unless you know the game is about to end. If you're units are getting destroyed, it might not be too late to change your strategy.
Once you get really good, learn how to use hotkeys, most professionals use them and it saves a lot of time. Obviously this is for SC2 but you can apply this to other RTS games as well.
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