There used to be a time when you weren't able to fill in your time by looking at the palm of your hand. There was a time where waiting for a bus meant just that, waiting. There was a time where waiting for a train meant just that, waiting. There was a time when mum was late to pick you up from the footy and you had to actually.....wait.

You didn't have a mobile phone to amuse you, you didn't have iPad to entertain you and you couldn't make a call or talk to somebody on the other side of the world in 140 characters. You couldn't Facebook a friend, Tweet a stranger or Pin something. But today you can, and it's a problem.

We have lost the art of being bored. Twenty years ago when you were waiting for a train and you were bored, you sat there and pondered. Your brain actually got to drift off into a land of imagination where you dreamt about holidays, dates, your job, the weekend, the possibilities and all the things you would like to see happen in your world.

Today, rather than dream and imagine, we quickly reach for our back pocket or purse and fill our time with, in most cases, meaningless communication that is just spam to anyone who's happy to listen, watch or read. The next creative idea won't come from your iPhone nor from your iPad or any other mobile device. The next great idea will come in between your thoughts in the time you actually are bored and god forbid, you break your connectivity to the world and just think.

Tomorrow's leaders are the thinkers not the doers. Your organisation will benefit from the thinking, which should then be followed by the doing. Your company or organisation can benefit through technology by implementing efficiently the ideas that come out of your head but nothing will take the place of the worlds greatest computer, your brain.

So boredom should be back on the agenda. There needs to be a time when you put down your phone or tablet and you just sit and think with a blank piece of paper. So next time you are bored or restless or distracted, resist the temptation to pick up technology. Resist the temptation to ring someone, Tweet someone, Facebook them or Link them. Sit, dream, think, ponder and imagine, what if?