Seeking guidance! How do I form connections & manage time effectively in high school?

[toasty7718]

Hey all,

 

It's been a while since I've been active on the forum. I've been incredibly busy with my senior year of high school and the free-time that I had prior that usually was invested in reading entries here or reading books from Daniel Schmachtenberger's reading list...goes towards deliberate study. 12 credit hours of dual enrollment college courses is no joke! (Especially when you only have 4 hours to dedicate to it a day if you have other commitments.)

A personal synopsis of what's going on:

That aside--I feel like my life has been gradually getting better. I'm reaching virtually 100% of my micronutrient & macronutrient targets on cronometer on a organic whole food plant based vegan diet. I'm hitting the gym 4+ days a week. I'm experimenting with nootropics like Qualia Mind Blend and pour-over coffee, and my sleep patterns are pretty good.

However...I'm severely lacking in other areas of my life that require that should be spent towards study. For one, I just haven't had the determination to meditate everyday. Is there any recommendations on how I can slowly build and sustain a meditation habit? My routine is as follows:

• wake up at 6:40 or 6:50 AM, make my lunch & coffee, wash face.
• get to school at 7:50 AM
• get out of school at 3:00 PM
• gym until 4:00-4:30
• cook/eat for an hour (WFPB vegan diet...needs lots of time spent towards eating lol)
• start study/homework at 5:30
• get to bed by 10:00, maybe 11:00

I'm also wondering...how can I make friends at school better? It's my senior year, so naturally I've stopped caring about what other people's opinions about me are. So that inherently means that I'm not actively trying to be a more friendly, sociable, and better person overall. I'm just...a weird fucking guy. That's how a lot of people describe me as. Weird, but also somehow intelligent...and sometimes funny. But I don't share any real interests or hobbies with anyone I know at my school, so making friends based off that isn't going to happen.

The next question builds atop this: how do I get a girlfriend in highschool?

Caffeine helps a ton with having actual energy to allocate to humor and "rizz," but I don't feel like this is my authentic self. It's so hard to be my natural, authentic self when it gets shut down from others so much...so, what do I do? Is there a mindset shift I can adopt where I cultivate more stage orange to be less weird (natural self) and be a more likable, charming, but not-authentic individual, or is me trying to be this just an extension of my natural self's path of development?

Thanks in advance.

[toasty7718]

@Scholar your replies are always meaningful, so your contribution here would help a lot