As leaders, when we are
going to make changes, we need to accept several inherited risks. Leader who
makes mental imagery, he performs it several times in his brain before the real
performing time (Sunny, 2021), and therefore he identifies risk areas.  Similarly, Zaleskiewicz
et al. (2020) also point out that mental imagery more helps entrepreneurs to
accept business risk. In my story, I made mental pictures several times of new
creations in the land section and therefore I understood related risks for example;
opposition of employees who generally dislike changes, financial barriers, and
IT related risks before appearing in the real world. Mental imagery, self-talk,
beliefs and thought patterns are components of self-leadership (Neck & Manz, 1992), and self-leadership helps leaders to align subordinates
to common objectives as well as achieve their own personal goals.  Similarly, I could align employees in the
land section according to my mental imagery, however, I need to improve further
mental imagery, self-talk and thought patterns as a leader to get
career success.   

One evening, after having my tea, I took a mental
picture to overcome obstacles in the land section to get farmers' satisfaction
on our service. I thought about a transparent glass file cabinet system, color
coding system and IT based indexing system to minimize the existing delay of
process in the section. Following day, I discussed my mental imagery with
employees of the section, and they hopefully agreed to the proposal. I had a
discussion with the technical officer and information technology officer of the
organization to convert my mental imagination into a real-world product.
Finally, we as a team could establish the system in the land section, and
farmers as well as employees of the organization are experiencing its
reliability and user friendliness even today.  

Neck, C.P., Nouri, H. and Godwin, J.L., 2003. How self-leadership affects the goal-setting process. Human Resource Management Review, 13(4), pp.691-707.

Sunny, K., 2021, The importance of visualizing your goals, https://itbd.in/using-visualization-to-achieve-your-leadership-goals/ , accessed 18 October 2022.

Zaleskiewicz, T., Bernady, A., & Traczyk, J. (2020). Entrepreneurial risk taking is related to mental imagery: A fresh look at the old issue of entrepreneurship and risk. Applied Psychology, 69(4), 1438-1469.