Beloved Family and Friends,

I hope you are well and the New Year is treating you great so far! I am moving to Seattle on February 15^th and I’m really nervous and excited! It’d be really awesome if you could help me get there with a bit more cushion in my future nest. I hope I’m not asking for a lot, and I want you to know that I appreciate anything you can do (even if that is just to wish me good luck and keep me in your thoughts or prayers.)

I’m pretty comfortable asking for a coffee (and people seem to love buying me coffee) so I’ll ask you for the equivalent in dollars: $1, $5 or $10 dollars (okay that’s a coffee and a sandwich) This would be more than enough from you and extremely appreciated and I can definitely promise to either pay that forward or back once I’m making a living in my new home. I'd especially love it if I could help you out with a fundraiser that you are working on - just bring it to my attention.

I’m going to take a note from Public Television and if you are wanting to give more, I’ve set up some ways you can get some services from me in exchange.

$50 dollar donations:

If you would like to give $50 you can opt to get 3 Photography lessons via skype or FaceTime. I can offer this to 30 people and you can also gift this one for someone else if you like. The sessions will be about half an hour each and will involve homework, the good kind, I promise! I can also teach you basics of photo editing if you have the photo taking part down.

Alternatively, and this one is for those of you who are feeling adventurous - you can choose a life coaching session. This is something I'm experimenting with as part of my consulting business so it will be very open ended and can cover a wide variety of topics/subjects but of course it would be centered around you and your life's goals. I will only be able to offer 5 people this one. The sessions will be one hour long and conducted over skype, facetime, phone or e-mail. Just like the training, you get 3 sessions but these will be one hour each.

Thank you so much for checking out my fundraiser and please feel free to send me a message.

Deep Gratitude and Love,

Sohail