Directions: Choose the word that best completes each blank in the passage.
     Self-esteem is the confidence and worth that you feel about yourself. Your self-esteem __1__  everything you do, think, feel, and are. It is, in fact, one of the most important __2__  in your overall sense of well-being. How well you feel physically, __3__ , and socially can affect your self-esteem. In turn, your __4__ of self-esteem can directly affect your physical, mental, and social health.
     Some of the __5__ about who you are and how likable you are come from outside yourself. They are called __6__messages. Others come from inside yourself. They are called internal messages.
     Many people __7__ their self-esteem on external factors – on how they look, what they have, how they __8__, how others see them, or with whom they are friends. In __9__, however, self-esteem comes from knowing, __10__ and liking not what you have, whom you know, or what you do, but who you are.