1) Start a space program.
2) Get every scientist in the world who would relate to it involved in it.
3) Get entertainment people involved in making a whole bunch of games, books, movies, shows to keep me occupied while I wait for the space program to advance
4) solve all those pesky global problems via a trial and error strategy
5) occupy myself with all those things the entertainment people were making
6) Claim a noble, uncorrupted, unbiased orphan as my successor.
7) Raise orphan to be excellent statesman.
8) Fake death, leaving cryptic note for orphan
9) Escape to space in (rockets? Shuttles? Elevators? Flying Saucers?) developed by space program people.
10) Find habitable planet
11) Settle down and wait for my next round with Death.
Yep, that's about it.