I am not naturally a neat and organized person. Truth be told, I am one of those people who opens the tupperware cabinet, throws in the container, and then shuts it really fast so nothing falls out. But I am a meal planner, list maker, and schedule follower. If something involves or impacts other people, I am all in. I will be there prepared and on time. But I am a procrastinator. When faced with something I don't want to do, I may spend an hour and 40 minutes playing on my phone before forcing myself to get up and just do it. So I use planners, lists, and schedules to trick my rule-following-procrastinating-personality to get stuff done.
This is a list/schedule hybrid I use to try to

Depending on your living and family situation, your list might be completely different. When the kids were little, organizing toys and scouring fingerprints needed to be done weekly. Then, I might have washed favorite stuffed animals once a month. When the kids got bigger, much of the list became part of their chore charts. Woot. Woot. But kids grow up. They and their stuffed animals and chore charts move out. Then you're stuck with all the boring, thankless chores; like vacuuming the intake vents.
One for each day of the month. Or not -- because let's be honest, if I did everything on the list a couple times a year, I'd be thrilled.
And just consulting the list makes me feel more organized.
P.S. None of the pictures above are actually from my house. I just made the collage out of pretty pictures I found on the internet. :)