I did something like this with my son when he was younger. I got fed up with the arguments about cleaning his room so I told him I was setting the timer for 15 minutes, and he had to clean the whole 15 minutes, but then he was done FOR THE DAY. We were going to do it every day, though.

My son LOVED it. He made it a game trying to get more done than me (so of course I let him "win.") but really, it was a game changer for both of us. We both realized that MANY things didn't take as long to do as we thought they did, and after about two weeks, the house was really clean and stayed that way. And then every time we had 10 minutes before we had to leave or something, instead of scrolling on our phones, we'd find something to clean.