Rewards

We are settled nicely into our home for the next two weeks.  Our system of me nagging the kids to do schoolwork and chores while they run in every direction possible firmly set in stone.  I have decided to include things that make me better in every part of my day.  Not just my kids who make me look like the world's best mom, but me.  The who I am when they aren't around.  You would think that at forty I would have this figured out a bit, but I have found at 40 is the time to figure it out.  Now I have already established in my 20's and 30's that I am not a housekeeper.  The keeper of the home that anyone can swing by and see in perfect order, not me.  In fact I am the home where you wonder what that smell is, most of the time it's boy, but sometimes I find other menacing smells.  However I have found that if I spend a small amount of time focused on this each day in my tiny house that things don't get away from me.  I wish I could blame it all on my kids but I am as equally responsible.  I don't put things away as soon as I am done.  I don't make things a home as soon as they come in, and I don't put everything away nice and tidy.  This however doesn't make me a horrible person, it simply makes me human.  So in an effort to fight this inhumaneness of my humanity, I have decided to write a list each day of things to get done.  I did this awhile in my 20's and it seemed to work for me.  Unfortunately in my current life I rarely have anything that motivates me to accomplish the list.  I am not motivated by the crossing off the list. I am mostly motivated by food.  Which I am trying to eliminate as a reward.  So I need a new list of rewards for doing things that I should find joy and accomplishment in just doing for my family.  So bring it on, how do you reward yourself for a job well done?  How do you pat yourself on the back for doing those things that don't give you joy and happiness in the task?