The apostle Paul says that God changes us from one degree of glory to another. In other words, both personal changes in us, as well as changes in circumstances, happen gradually.
You are in a degree of glory right now!
If you have been born again, you are somewhere in the path of the righteous. Maybe not as far as you'd like, but you are on the right track. There was a time when you were totally out of a covenant relationship, because of a lack of faith. (Ephesians 2: 11-12). But now you belong to the family of God and you are being transformed by Him every day.
Enjoy the glory you have now, and do not be envious of the location of others. They also had to go through where you are now.

We have a strong tendency to compare our glory to the glory of others. The devil arranges things for us to think like this, but it is not God's way. God wants us to realize that He has a special plan for each of us. Satan wants to ensure that we are not happy with what we have at the moment. He wants us to be in competition with each other, always wanting what someone else has. When we don't know how to enjoy the glory we have in the moment, we only slow down the maturing process. I don't think we will move on to the next degree of glory until we learn to enjoy where we are.
In this sense, a "glory" is simply the place that is better than the previous place.

I have had so many flaws in my personality and character that even after five years of trying to walk with the Lord, I still felt that I had not progressed. However, all this time, it was becoming a little more glorious.

We are usually very hard on ourselves. We could grow faster if we relaxed more.
We cannot live up to our feelings in these matters. Satan makes sure that we often have the feeling that we are hopeless disorder, or that God is not at work in our lives. We have to learn to live according to the word of God, and not according to our feelings. His word indicates that while we believe, He is working in us!