“Company policy.”  Does that phrase make your skin crawl?  You know what it means, of course. There is an edict from some faceless, inaccessible power that will keep you from doing what you want.   

Hard as it is to believe, companies, governments, and other institutions do not make policies to harass their customers, citizens, clients and employees.  They make policies to keep their managers from having to think.  You will see the wisdom of this practice if you examine the policies.  These policies are, of course, the products of management thinking in the past.  Just imagine the results if the managers kept on thinking.

Your natural reaction to policies is to fight.  But you understand that fighting a policy is a lot like swimming through jelly.  You can make progress. The progress may be sweet.  But you will work so hard that you will soon look for a more productive way to spend your time.

But the main reason you hate policies is that they are not yours.  If you had a policy of your own, you could enjoy it.  Perhaps it would save you from thinking about something.  You could then redirect your brain to thinking about something more urgent.  There is the view that managers use policies to let them think about things that are more important.   This view is widely held by managers.

But this is not a matter of “if you had a policy of your own…”  If you don’t have a policy, the reason is that you haven’t made one.  Now here is you chance to make a policy. 

You can even make a policy not to make policies. 
Or maybe you have already tried that. 

A policy that affects you and you alone is called a resolution.  Here is a Clipit on how to make one. 
Resolutions Clipit

A policy that affects your family is called a family policy.  Here is how to start making a family policy.
Family Policy