So does anybody else’s sponsor have requirements for you to meet in order to be sponsored; besides the willingness to stay sober?
No. Some do and if you need discipline, stick with it. Some in recovery need to build that habit to ask for help and to stop thinking they can do it alone. So it can be a good thing in early recovery if you can’t make a habit of going to meetings every day and picking up the phone every other at least. But some don’t need it. Find what works best for you but don’t shun it because it annoys you. Getting outside of yourself and your own character defects is one of the main things you will learn.
Yes to read the big book in it’s entirety and the 12/12.