He’s essentially just saying he wants to keep moving forward on the current path.

He's not even saying that much. He's just keying on a rhetorical turn-of-phrase to distinguish himself from other candidates. It would be akin to saying "I'm not red like the Republicans or blue like the Democrats. I'm white."

It's nothing. Completely hollow. And it'll collapse the moment he comes into contact with an issue anyone actually cares about, for the same reason his campaign collapsed when he ran for mayor.