A guru could be defined as a teacher, adviser or rehabilitator who is using his or her skills to help an individual apply the given advice positively to his or her life.
Self help gurus could be described as teachers promoting good behavior in the society by extending their knowledge to desiring individuals who apply it positively through rehabilitation or family matters.
A self help guru could also render his knowledge through a written work of art in terms of poetry from books or real life confessions rewritten as novels.
The impact that extends to the reader may actually lead him or her into taking a different course of life.
By taking a look at some of the top self help gurus of all time, we will get to benefit positively without losing it all.

• Napoleon Hill is one of the renowned heroes of self help.
  He used one test subject during his endeavors as a reporter to get a story which significantly landed him to interview about five hundred more test subjects.
  This was his break through because from this point on, he started publishing self help books with the first one of them all being the law of results.
  
• Another self help guru of all time is Eckhart Tolle.
  Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual writer based in the United States who has significantly helped so many people in the choosing of the right path.
  His most influential work includes the self help books of the power of now and the new earth.
  Up to the year ending in 2009, the mentioned self help books had sold copies of up to eight million dollars meaning that the work of Eckhart Tolle was magnificent.
  Besides Eckhart Tolle who continues to write up to this moment, there are other key people that we could also look at.
  
• Dale Carnegie attracted many self help books authors by becoming one of the motivational talkers in the history of self help.
  He educated people on ways of living be avoiding tension which is a matter of conscience that can hurt people which was well described on his book 'how to win friends and impact people'.
  
• Tony Robbins is another important person that we can look at when trying to focus on the issue of self help gurus who have impacted the world with their self help books or any other technique of passing messages to people.
  Unlike Eckhart Tolle who was rather a spiritual writer, Robbins was so much connected with infomercials.
  He started out as a second-hand person for Jim John whereby he sold seminars for him.
  Through experience, he came to realize that he could also come up with individual collection of seminars that he could also use in his own way to inform and educate people.
  By coming up with buzz like words for example the day with destiny the emphasis created by these words brought more gatherings of seminars goers.
  
• Another great self aid person that brought changes to many people was Deepak Chopra.
  He started out as a poet where with time he was nick-named the poet-prophet.
  One of his greatest work of art in bringing people together and incidentally impacting their lives positively was arguments based on electricity.
  The argument of the head-system link to the body was the primary argument in relation to the said electricity.
  This is the reaction of the body in accordance to news or information and what exactly takes place in the brain to amount the said reactions.
  He went further to argue that our minds can recover from damage if we initiated it and also that they could also damage themselves.
  

These great men in history and in the current lives have brought about changes on many people's lives as well as hope.
There are other many people who have impacted the social lives of many in a way that helps them to stay safe and away from trouble.
If you are looking for a way to change your old ways of life or rather methods of achieving success, you can find this information from books specifically written to address you in any possible positive way.
So don't dread about the current situation you may be in because there is a way out.