Making Friends with Your Weaknesses

The other day, one of the trainers at my box threw out this quote while all of us were whining about the workout we were about to do, "Find your weaknesses, make friends with them, then beat them to death!" (Chris Spealler). My immediate reaction was, "but it's so much easier to be friends with my strengths." 

Then I came back to reality; I know, I know, of course it's easier to be friends with my strengths, but that isn't why we Crossfit. We (I) crossfit because I am challenged every.single.day, I am pushed to my limits, to the point where a big part of me wants to give up, throw in the towel, but we (I) don't. We push harder, we train more, we spend hours on those weaknesses. For months, I've known the gymnastics movements, overhead presses and snatching are my weaknesses. For the most part, what have I done? (Embarrassingly) Avoided them! That ends now...

I'll be completely honest, I'm slightly afraid, mostly because I don't want to fail BUT how amazing is it when you succeed at something you are afraid of? 

And last but not least, who doesn't want friends you can beat to death (figuratively, of course)?!