Anyone who has lived in Tucson through a windy spring knows the feeling of dusting a shelf and finding it grey again two days later. The dust is not a cleaning failure. It is fine desert soil that gets airborne easily and settles slowly, which means most of it arrives after you have finished.
The first fix is the order of operations. Dust before you vacuum and mop, always working from the top of the room down, so what you knock loose lands on floors you have not cleaned yet. Cleaning floors first and dusting second is the single most common way to end up doing the same room twice.
The second fix is a damp cloth instead of a dry one. Dry dusting on a dry-climate surface mostly relocates the dust into the air, where it settles again within the hour. A lightly damp microfiber picks it up and holds it. Same cloth, same shelf, completely different result the following day.
The third is the entry points, which matter more here than the surfaces do. Window tracks, sliding door channels, patio thresholds, and vent covers are where the dust concentrates before it spreads. Clearing those on a regular schedule slows down everything downstream of them. A doormat outside and inside each exterior door, and a habit of leaving shoes at the door, does more for a tile floor than an extra mopping every week.
Then there is the honest limit: after a haboob or a big wind event, nothing keeps a house pristine, and no cleaning schedule is going to change that. The goal is a place that recovers in one pass rather than needing a reset, and that comes down to keeping the tracks, filters, and thresholds clear rather than cleaning more often.