choose the word that best completes each blank in the passage.
self-esteem is confidence and worth that you feel about yourself.your self-esteem influences everything you do,think, feel, and are.it is, in fact, one of the most important factors in your overall sense of well-being. how well you feel physically, mentally, and socially can affect your self-esteem.in turn,your level of self-esteem can directly affect your physical, mental, and social health.
some of the messages about who you are and how likable you are come from outside yourself. they are called external messages. others come from inside yourself. they are called internal massages.
many people base their self-esteem on external factors - on how they look, what they have, how they perform, how other see them, or with whom they are friends. in reality, however, self-esteem comes form knowing, accepting and liking not what you have, whom you know, or what you do, but who you are.