# 2/25 - always move forward and qotd

**URL:** https://www.recoverycollective.net/t/2-25-always-move-forward-and-qotd/3519
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**Tags:** qotd
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.recoverycollective.net/t/2-25-always-move-forward-and-qotd/3519 "2025-02-25T17:36:27Z")
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### Author: ![InchByInch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/www.recoverycollective.net/inchbyinch/32/100_2.png) [@InchByInch](https://www.recoverycollective.net/u/InchByInch)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.recoverycollective.net/t/2-25-always-move-forward-and-qotd/3519/1 "2025-02-25T17:36:27Z")

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There are days where moving forward is fluid and easy and there are days that moving forward is hard and a slog. But that just is. They won’t all be good days. But we’re still moving forward. Perhaps today is only one step forward. Perhaps today’s step is I didn’t use. Always forward.

**Do you have a mantra? A word for phrase that you use when it starts to get hard?**

I have a few but when I look at them they have two themes. Gratitude and forward progress. Even when it’s hard and dark I can find something I’m grateful for and use that to take yet another step.

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### Author: ![krevwon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/www.recoverycollective.net/krevwon/32/75_2.png) [@krevwon](https://www.recoverycollective.net/u/krevwon)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://www.recoverycollective.net/t/2-25-always-move-forward-and-qotd/3519/2 "2025-02-26T15:49:37Z")

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I recently came up with this one thanks to a typo in a message thread with a buddy: Gratefulness opens us to Great Fullness.

I also say this stuff a lot: “You gotta go through it to get to it.”, “Help helps”, & “Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.”