Really, all I’m looking for is this. An Emporer’s advice:
The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all. Before long you’ll be no one, nowhere—like Hadrian, like Augustus.
The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.
Meditations 8:5.
In other words, calm down and concentrate on the most important thing.
Calm comes from knowing you’ll be dead soon enough.
Concentration comes from doing what I’m meant to do, what my nature naturally produces, and what Nature demands of me.