Self-esteem is the confidence and worth that you feel about yourself. Your self- esteem 31 everything you do, think, feel, and are. It is, in fact, one of the most important
32 in your overall sense of well-being. How well you feel physically, 33 , and socially can affect your self-esteem. In turn, your 34 of self-esteem can directly affect your physical, mental, and social health.
Some of the 35 about who you are and how likable you are come from outside yourself. They are called 36 messages. Others come from inside yourself. They are called internal messages.
Many people 37 their self-esteem on external factors -- on how they look, what they have, how they 38 , how others see them, or with whom they are friends. In 39 ,
however, self-esteem comes from knowing, know, or what you do, but who you are.
40 and liking not what you have, whom you