to go forward, to advance, to progress / to improve, to progress

voluntarily; willingly

progress

earnest, wholehearted / singleminded

earnestness, wholeheartedness / single-mindedness

course, way

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(idiomatic) to continue on... (some trend, often negative)